The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has donated $60,000 to the Labour Party and $15,000 to the Green Party, the union announced this morning.

The roading announcement was also part of a wider strategy to convince voters that the Greens will be the driving force of any post-election coalition, writes John Armstrong.

Adoption is being used by migrants as a way to "sneak" their relatives into the country, immigration advisers say.

New Herald poll shows Internet-Mana would get two MPs, as their success eats into the Greens vote while National is still well ahead of Labour.

Yet another poll - the Herald-DigiPoll survey today - suggests National is heading for a decisive re-election in September.

There are three rules of New Zealand politics. Never criticise farmers. Never ask why cannabis is illegal and never, ever mention abortion.

With 100 days to go until election day on September 20, the political parties - no doubt fibbing through clenched teeth - profess to be ready. Or close enough.

The Green Party wants New Zealand to embrace 3D printing technology by encouraging its use in schools, universities and business.

The Green Party wants to make abortion freely available to women up to 20 weeks pregnant.

The Greens are open to negotiating offsetting subsidies to emissions-intensive, trade-exposed firms whose survival might be threatened by their proposed carbon tax.

The words "tax cut" and "Green Party" do not normally appear in the same sentence, unless the party is condemning the cut.

When eccentric millionaires hijack the political landscape as their own private playground, mere mortals should be very afraid, writes Brian Rudman.

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.

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.

Labour and Greens have pulled their support for a law change which cracks down on migrant exploitation.

Under the old first-past-the-post system National would romp home, but MMP neutralises such clear-cut outcomes, writes Bob Jones.

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.