The Green Party is offering a simple answer to child poverty: give beneficiary parents the same wage subsidies paid to low and middle income earners with children. That, the party calculates, would give beneficiaries an extra $60 a week.

Voters comparing social policies at this election have a clear choice: "Unrelenting focus on work" with National, or a softer line if Labour wins.

Greens co-leader Metiria Turei says the policy of raising the top tax rate is not about penalising the rich but sharing the benefits of wealth more fairly.

The Greens say their policy of raising the top tax rate to generate close to $1b to tackle child poverty was not about penalising the rich but sharing the benefits.

Most ACC clients who complain about their treatment by the accident insurer believe their grievances have been handled poorly by the corporation, a new Auditor General's report has found.

The Green Party would push for almost half a billion spending over five years on public transport in Christchurch.

'Do you want to leave now?' asked the host of last night's Helensville debate of Prime Minister John Key - who came closest to being kicked out.

Labour and the Green Party have conceded that a capital gains tax would not be a "panacea" for New Zealand's unaffordable housing crisis.

National's $212 million plan to fast-track regional road projects using asset sales cash is not backed by a strong economic case, OIA documents reveal.

MPs have headed off on the campaign trail with one last blast at their rivals.

Ms Turei tells the story over cups of hot chocolate - fortified with Bailey's against a chilly evening.

The National Policy Statement (NPS) for freshwater may not have razzmatazz, but it arose from that exercise in consensual collaboration called the Land and Water Forum.

The Green Party announced plans to immediately ban deep sea drilling around NZ’s coast if the Greens form the next government.

Greens co-leader Metiria Turei was "extremely nervous" about the party's billboard campaign using pictures of hungry, barefoot kids and a beach clean up from the Rena.

The Greens have unveiled a policy to extend 20 hours a week of free early childhood education to 2-year-olds.

The Green Party is attempting to boost its economic credentials by making a business-friendly promise to hand out $1 billion more in tax breaks and grants.

The Green Party wants to inject an additional $1 billion into research and development as part of its key economic strategy, it revealed this morning.

The Green Party's plan to restrict dams and irrigation schemes, and make rivers clean enough to swim in, would save taxpayer money.

The Green Party is aiming to make every river in New Zealand clean enough to swim in.

Collisions, ill-timed power failures, near misses and fires are among more than 50 dodgy incidents involving ships around our coasts over the past year.

The Opposition's role is to hold the government to account plus present itself as an alternative administration.

Most Labour voters prefer the Green Party to NZ First if Labour only needs one of them after the election.

Editorial: The history of the West Coast is one of boom and bust. Such fluctuations in fortune are the lot of local economies based on extractive industries.

The Green Party has dismissed the new bottom lines as "weak" and argues the measures mean rivers will only have to be clean enough for wading or boating.

The Labour and Green party coffers will receive a $120,000 boost for the election from unions that are also hoping to mobilise thousands of members to push for a change of Government.

First-term Green MP Holly Walker has decided to withdraw from the party's list, effectively stepping down as a MP at the September election.