Green MP Gareth Hughes has confirmed he will enter the contest to replace Russel Norman as male co-leader.

Analysis of election candidate donations has shown a wide variety of businesses are willing to open their wallets for politicians.

Peter Dunne says he would look at revisiting his post-election concessions from the National Party if New Zealand First leader Winston Peters wins the Northland byelection.

Labour spent half as much as National on last year's election campaign and was outspent by the Greens for the first time.

Green MP Kevin Hague could have competition for the party's leadership as two more MPs have tentatively suggested they might enter the contest.

The Greens have called for the NZ Superannuation Fund to quit its investments in companies producing fossil fuel.

If the Greens are intent on becoming a mainstream political party with sufficient cachet to be a credible Govt partner they should persuade Metiria Turei to join Russel Norman in resigning.

Dr Norman will leave the leadership with his party in no worse position than he found it.

Rodney Hide writes: Prime Minister John Key likes to text. So, perhaps it would help us all if Labour and the Greens drew up a list of whom the Prime Minister can and can't text?

Mass media, citizen media, new media, and politician media management - it all gets frequently evaluated, criticised and sometimes praised, writes Bryce Edwards.

Urgent law changes being introduced to combat the threat of "foreign fighters" will be in place until 2018, as opponents question their 'short-term' nature.

Woe betide Green MP Steffan Browning, for who knew the Green Party could be quite so ruthless?

Not so long ago, any Green MP who suggested sipping camomile tea or some other herbal concoction to ward off the horrific Ebola virus would surely have been deemed by his or her colleagues to be guilty - but only of being eccentric.

Shell Todd Oil has drilled two wells off the coast of Taranaki without marine consent, the Green Party says.

The election of Trevor Mallard yesterday as Assistant Speaker will almost certainly take out of play one of the most recalcitrant MPs in Question Time.

Nearly two-thirds of National supporters voted for the Act Party's David Seymour in Epsom, newly released election data shows.

Since the election there has been much querying of what the Green Party is about and where it ought to be heading.

Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell's appointment to head the newly rebranded Maori Development portfolio reflects a new focus for what used to be Maori Affairs, Prime Minister John Key says.

Maori Party Co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell has been appointed as a Minister after his party inked its confidence and supply deal with National this afternoon.

Green MP-in-waiting James Shaw admits he didn't appeal to the protester-activist core of the party when he showed up to meetings in a suit and a CV that included global firms HSBC and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The Green Party is vowing to keep its ties with Labour and has no plans to dramatically change tack by aligning with National or returning to its roots as primarily an environmental party.

The new Parliament is a melting pot of ethnicities and religions - but one thing has stayed the same, it's a male-dominated House of Representatives.

Election 2014 was a night to forget for the minor parties as the National juggernaut left the Conservative Party, the Greens, New Zealand First, internet-Mana, the Maori Party and Act reeling last night.

There was talk of love and a celebrity-led singalong as the Green Party marked the close of its campaign with supporters in Auckland's St Kevin's Arcade.