The Green Party is offering up tax breaks of $6 a week for households to soften the blow of a proposal to tax carbon pollution in New Zealand for the first time.

The Greens are straining at the leash. They are not just hungry for power. They are starving.

Teenagers would get free GP visits and prescriptions under a Green Government, co-leader Metiria Turei revealed this morning.

Green Party MP Metiria Turei is reminding voters that her party has two leaders.

The Green Party are losing hope in the Emissions Trading Scheme, saying it has become a game for speculators, and may propose radical changes or even scrap it if elected this year.

Toby Manhire looks at this week's strange coming together of Kim Dotcom's Internet Party and Hone Harawira's Mana Party. "Here we are. Bloody hell."

The Green Party wants to spend $327 million to revive a nationwide home insulation scheme - with $60 million earmarked for Canterbury.

The Greens have released the final roster of list candidates for this year's election - and there's one notable omission.

National has taken a 6 point dive in the latest Roy Morgan poll, below the combined support of Labour and the Greens at 45.5 per cent.

David Cunliffe has dismissed claims he is running scared from John Key and playing hard to get over a Campbell Live series featuring political leaders at home.

Les Mills gym boss Phillip Mills has donated a total of $125,000 to Labour and the Green Party in recent weeks.

The latest global report on climate change is "bad news" for New Zealand, which has far fewer mitigation policies than other advanced economies, the Green Party say.

Editorial: It is conceivable that, if only for a brief moment, David Cunliffe gave some consideration to the Green Party's proposal for a formal coalition to contest the general election.

Labour yesterday rebuffed a proposal by the Green Party to present both parties as a coalition Government in waiting during in the run-up to the September 20 election.

The Greens could be part of a government that signs up to the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement, co-leader Russel Norman has conceded.

A new report discussing the potential to move toward a green economy says New Zealand should "carefully review its direction of development".

Labour's support has sunk nearly six points and it is polling only 29.5 per cent in the Herald-DigiPoll survey.

The Greens are the first party to name their contenders for the September election, issuing a draft list which favours youthful candidates.

Green MP Julie Anne Genter and up-and-coming Greens candidate James Shaw are the biggest winners in the party's draft list.

The Greens want to build up to $200m in cycle lanes and walkways around schools if they are in govt, and funding would be redirected from "low-value" projects such as the Holiday Highway north of Auckland.

Labour MP Shane Jones says the Green Party is being thin-skinned over his attacks on their MPs.

Minutes before Mojo Mathers was due to give a speech last week, she began to worry.

Editorial: The Green Party undoubtedly believes a policy that will mean smaller pay rises for parliamentarians is a surefire winner.

The Greens will push for legislation to lock MPs' and ministers' pay rises or even cuts to the same dollar amounts ordinary New Zealanders receive.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig says he is trying to "raise the standard of debate'' with his defamation claim against Greens co-leader Russel Norman.

A mock fundraising campaign launched by Colin Craig to cover his defamation case against Russel Norman has collected $50,000 in less than a day.

Conservatives leader Colin Craig has rejected Russel Norman's suggestion he's limited his defamation claim because he's afraid of what's in his emails about gay Kiwis.