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,

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.

Green Party co-leader Russel Norman has accused Prime Minister John Key of conspiring to establish a surveillance state in New Zealand.

When you are claiming that you are committed to "transparent and democratic politics" - as the Greens have been emphasising in recent weeks - you have to be cleaner than clean.

Leading constitutional lawyer Stephen Franks has panned the Government's convention centre deal with SkyCity, saying it dodges important safeguards.

Muldoonist? John Key? Russel Norman cannot be serious, writes John Armstrong. Norman is correct in saying National is displaying worrying levels of cynicism.

The Green Party's deep secrets are out - its MPs sometimes fall asleep in Parliament and they think some other politicians are "thick".

The Green Party will have to fight to hold on to its identity if it enters into a coalition with Labour at next year's election, an Australian Greens politician says.

The Greens say a nurse will be put in every low decile primary and intermediate school if the they are elected to govern New Zealand.

Green Party co-leader Russel Norman has all but shut the door on working with National after the next election.

Greens co-leader Russel Norman today launched a scathing attack on the PM, the Govt, and SkyCity.

What had Labour seething was the errant wording of a question in the 3News Reid Research poll, writes John Armstrong. The mistake may have been a simple oversight...

When Russel Norman snarls about business and profits, it repels the mainstream Labour needs if it is to get close to the 40 per cent it needs, writes John Roughan.

In eighteen months, three or more Green MPs could become Cabinet ministers for the first time in the party's history.

National is facing the "notoriously difficult" task of winning a third term against an Opposition increasingly dragged to the "far left" by the Greens, says Key

Over the next 18 months, expect to see Key, and David Shearer, too, hovering outside Peters' office, bottle of Scotch in hand, writes Toby Manhire.