Ministers will have to personally buy the taxpayer-provided furniture, crockery and whiteware in their Wellington homes.

Hone Harawira has taken on QC Peter Williams to advise him during his battle to stay with the Maori Party.

Hone Harawira's "white mother******s" comment has provoked 753 approaches to Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres, who says the vast majority complained they had been insulted.

If the Maori Party and the Government had any hopes of keeping the hornet's nest the Hone Harawira dispute had stirred up with him in Te Tai Tokerau, they were quickly disabused of the notion yesterday.

Embattled MP Hone Harawira is focusing on mending key Maori Party relationships in an attempt to stay in the party.

A report out today says the government's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) could cost twice as much as originally estimated.

Labour MP Shane Jones has attacked the Maori Party for a racially divisive attitude that makes it "the mirror image of Don Brash at Orewa".

A defiant Hone Harawira says he will not resigned from the Maori Party.

The embattled MP is not commenting on recent moves that have edged him towards possible expulsion from the Maori Party.

Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples said Hone Harawira was already behaving like an independent MP.

Maori Party leaders have made it clear Hone Harawira will be pushed if he refuses their request to resign.

Firebrand MP Hone Harawira has been given two weeks to decide if he wants to remain a Maori Party MP, in the wake of his racially abusive comments about white people.

The Maori Party president suggests embattled Te Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira leave the Party and become an independent MP.

Maori Party co-leader Dr Pita Sharples is in the Far North at a hui for embattled MP Hone Harawira.

Hone Harawira's "unacceptable" behaviour has prompted a flood of racist and abusive emails to the Maori Party, co-leader Tariana Turia says.