It seems New Zealand First leader Winston Peters can’t quite bring himself to utter the words “Colin Craig“or “the Conservative Party“.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters will not be drawn on who he might work with after the election.

National voters prefer the prospect of a post-election deal with Colin Craig's Conservative Party rather than Winston Peters' NZ First, a Herald-DigiPoll survey suggests.

An inquiry into allegations former Justice Minister Judith Collins tried to undermine then-SFO boss Adam Feeley will begin a week before the election.

Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater is going to the High Court in an effort to stop media publishing information taken by the hacker known as Rawshark.

Collins and Slater appear to have frequent contact over entire time she was a Cabinet minister, including an email discussion about the editing of her Wikipedia page.

Winston Peters harks back to a New Zealand of the 1950s and 1960s when everybody had a job and immigrants didn't take them. "We're not anti-immigration up here," he says. "Crikey! I'm half Scots."

Minor parties will almost certainly make up part of the next Government and the leaders are facing off over dinner tonight. Click here for the latest updates.

Potential post-election kingmaker Winston Peters says a wide-ranging royal commission of inquiry into "Dirty Politics" allegations against National is a bottom line for NZ First.

Winston Peters' talk of sitting on Parliament's cross benches after the election - rather than entering a coalition or propping up a minority government - has never sounded totally convincing.

In Winston's World, John Key is a voodoo doll he stabs with a pin whenever he gets bored.

Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater is backing his mate Judith Collins.

Judith Collins says her decision to quit will allow Prime Minister John Key to focus on the election campaign.

The man who may hold the balance of power after the election is considered the best card player among voters, according to the latest Herald-Digipoll.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says Judith Collins' credibility is in tatters and her accusations of lying about a plot to potentially roll Prime Minister John Key are hollow.

Two fresh faces have been catapulted up the New Zealand First ranks as the party dumped sitting MP Andrew Williams and demoted MP Asenati Lole-Taylor

The South China Morning Post's editors have a sense of humour: "New Zealand MP Winston Peters accused of racism over Wong joke" was the headline.

The man described as Winston Peter’s "right hand man” has quit NZ First and is now working for the Internet Mana alliance.

Two Aucklanders who share the name Wong have different opinions on Winston Peters' "two Wongs" joke.

How to explain Peters' "two Wongs don't make a right" excuse for a joke, writes John Armstrong.

Winston Peters' comment that "two Wongs don't make a right" is "outdated rhetoric" that has no place in the country's future, Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy says.

A Chinese name joke, a dig at this country's "Mr Spray and Walk Away" Prime Minister, and a promise of $1000 and a KiwiSaver account for every newborn baby - all featured in the New Zealand First campaign launch yesterday.

Winston Peters has a great jacket, capable of keeping the most unimaginable weather at bay. It was given to him by a racing club in Ireland. I'll have to take his word about its effectiveness.

Election emails fall from time and space on to the desk of columnist Toby Manhire - who shares them with you today. What do the say about NZ politics?

The revelation that a Chinese company plans to buy the Lochinver Station in the central North Island is manna to Winston Peters.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. Or so they say. Well, just try telling Winston Peters that.