Such were the worrying levels of goodwill to all men and women evident in Parliament yesterday that National's Anne Tolley felt obliged to remark upon it, writes John Armstrong.

Rogue former Green Party candidate David Hay has apologised "unreservedly’’ to Co-leader Metiria Turei for accusing her of orchestrating a campaign against him.

A classic case of the disenchanted maverick making the fatal mistake of thinking he is bigger than the party, writes John Armstrong.

Would-be Green Party leadership challenger David Hay - whose application to stand as a candidate for the party has been rejected - says he's not finished yet.

Every registered voter by now will have received postal ballot papers for the referendum on asset sales.

Greens co-leader Russel Norman is facing a challenge for the party leadership from a low-ranking Greens candidate.

Russel Norman was heckled in Parliament this week when he used the opportunity to express NZ's sympathy for the Philippines to deliver a harangue on the perils of climate change.

David Cunliffe's popularity began to wane almost as soon as the media spotlight ceased illuminating the contest over the Labour Party's parliamentary leadership, writes Dr Damien Rogers.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority is investigating whether police neglected their duties in their handling of a complaint against the GCSB over alleged spying on Kiwis.

Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei has been criticised by fellow MPs for breaking ranks over the sensitive issue of MPs' travel entitlements.

Casinos will be banned from offering free carparks, cheap drinks and other perks to gamblers if the Green Party is elected to Government.

The Green Party has dipped into its taxpayer funding to illustrate SkyCity's proposed expansion of its gambling floor.

The Labour-Green plan for reducing power prices through a centrally managed bulk buying scheme has certainly set the cat among the pigeons, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

Consumers are not being properly informed when the product they are buying has been processed with genetically modified organisms, the Green Party says.

Proposed national water quality standards are weak and will allow for further degradation of New Zealand's rivers and streams even to levels seen downstream of raw sewage outlets.

The time has surely arrived to dump New Zealand's failed two-decade-old experiment with American-style citizens-initiated referendums.

The week's prize for barefaced cheek must surely go to the Greens, writes John Armstrong. With Parliament's Clerk of the House yesterday finally giving the okay for a non-binding referendum on National's asset sales policy,

The Green Party has criticised the $65 million cost of selling shares in Mighty River Power to the public.

The Government has adopted a soft unilateral target for reducing carbon emissions by 2020, but Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said a future Government might lift it, should progress towards an international agreement post-2020 warrant it.

Labor Party politics in Australia can be a nasty and nail-biting business. The final episode between Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, played out over the past 48 hours, reveals this to be the case.

Marama Davidson, the Green Party candidate in Ikaroa-Rawhiti, will set out a jobs package proposal for the electorate today in a bid to blunt criticism that her anti-mining stance is also an anti-jobs stance.

Political parties routinely drop policies that, for whatever reason, are thought to be hindering their electoral prospects.