Mana Party Leader Hone Harawira is facing a new challenge in his Te Tai Tokerau seat at this year's election, from his party's former Te Tai Tonga candidate Clinton Dearlove.

David Cunliffe may well be proud that red is the colour of socialism, writes Claire Trevett, but he can't afford a re-enactment of Thrones' Red Wedding.

Will the Internet Mana Party succeed? To answer this question, one first has to define what success is., writes Bryce Edwards.

Labour leader David Cunliffe confirmed he would still be open to a post-election deal with Internet Mana despite making the abolition of "coat-tailing" under MMP .

When eccentric millionaires hijack the political landscape as their own private playground, mere mortals should be very afraid, writes Brian Rudman.

A Mana Party contender claims Winston Peters was among those who helped pay a $632 fine Hone Harawira received last year at an Glenn Innes housing protest.

Singing star Stan Walker weighed into a revved-up blessing of the Destiny Church's new headquarters in Auckland yesterday, blending showbiz with religion.

Is the Internet Mana alliance a con job on the New Zealand electorate, or is it a fair and smart use of the MMP system? This is a debate we can expect to have over the short term, writes Bryce Edwards.

Prime Minister John Key has ramped up his criticism of Kim Dotcom in the wake of the union of the internet Party and Mana Party, saying Dotcom was trying to "buy influence" .

Laila Harré brought political polish and signs of a coherent policy platform to the official announcement of her leadership of the fledgling Internet Party this afternoon.

The union of Mana and the Internet Party is very much an arranged marriage - they checked out each other's dowries and decided they liked what they saw, writes Claire Trevett.

Editorial: Kim Dotcom and Hone Harawira have formed perhaps the oddest coupling in New Zealand politics.

Former Alliance Party MP Laila Harré will be announced as the leader of Kim Dotcom's Internet Party tomorrow, the Herald understands.

Criticism, disbelief, and a degree of mockery sums up the response to the newly launched Internet Mana Party, writes Bryce Edwards.

If Hone Harawira has sold his party's soul to the devil, one thing is for sure, he got a good price for it, writes John Armstrong.

Odd political bedfellows Hone Harawira and Kim Dotcom sealed the deal between their Mana and Internet parties.

Hone Harawira’s bill that would provide breakfast and lunch to every decile one and two school began its first reading in Parliament last night.

Kim Dotcom's fledgling Internet Party has begun fleshing out its policy platform, setting a target of having 100 per cent of the country's electricity supply coming from renewable sources within ten years.

The intricate Hone Harawira and Kim Dotcom dance is proving every bit as exciting as the royal tour.

National MP Mark Mitchell has claimed Kim Dotcom was "intimidatory" and made "direct threats" towards the Prime Minister to Mr Mitchell at a barbecue late last year.

Kim Dotcom's Internet Party says discussions with a sitting electorate MP who was poised to join the party have ended due to the prospect of a tie up with Hone Harawira's Mana Party.

Should the Mana Party do its deal with the Internet Party, Hone Harawira's Tai Tokerau electorate will become an even more crucial election battleground, writes Adam Bennett.

Mana Party leader Hone Harawira has indicated he's prepared to lose senior party figures such as founding member Sue Bradford.

Sue Bradford and other leading Mana Party figures have walked out of the party's AGM.

It's mid-morning, midweek in Kaikohe. The street is busy with people but if this is still the "hub of the north", no one has told the shop owners.

Hone Harawira and Kim Dotcom have taken the next step in their slow dance, after Mana Party members agreed late last night to move forward in negotiations with the Internet Party.