National is playing MMP gymnastics at the expense of its little allies and with an eye on the 2014 election.

Big banks shout Treasury staff to meals and events with 'disturbing frequency'.

A new poll revealing Labour with only 27 per cent support shows the public are rejecting the opposition's new tax policy, Prime Minister John Key says. The result was among Labour's worst of the past decade.

A bill aimed at changing the nasty habits of some freedom campers passed its first reading in Parliament today.

Sue Bradford says she left the Green Party over what she saw as its shift toward right wing politics.

Australian Greens leader Bob Brown is confident his negotiations with Julia Gillard's Labor Government will see a carbon tax put in place across the Tasman.