The bipartisan position on free trade is now in limbo, and Labour's position of withholding support until it sees details is not as radical as the original plan to oppose it.

Labour's new rule to ensure at least half of its MPs are women by 2017 is likely to lead to increased pressure on Phil Goff and Trevor Mallard to quit Parliament.

The Labour Party's annual conference was a case of veering from the seemingly ridiculous to the truly sublime, writes John Armstrong

Labour leader David Cunliffe says it won't be very hard for Labour to reach its newly adopted target of at least 45 per cent women MPs after next year's election.

When it comes to honesty and ethics, the public ranks insurance companies only slightly above used-car salesmen.

David Cunliffe has vowed to take Prince William and his family to poorer streets such as McGehan Close and a closed tannery in Shannon.

Labour leader David Cunliffe intervened in a meeting of affiliated unions at the party conference in Wigram to broker a compromise resolution on the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Well might the biblical warning about reaping what you sow haunt David Cunliffe as he delivers his first speech to a Labour Party conference as leader.

David Cunliffe's leadership will be put to an early test at the Labour Party conference this weekend as he mediates between two divergent forces in the party on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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.

One of NZ's largest home builders says new loan restrictions have cost it 24 new-home builds in the first month alone - and it expects more as the policy bites.

The Labour Party conference in Christchurch this weekend looks set to approve a remit that will require its list to "fairly represent" gays and lesbians among candidates.

Two new polls, out today, have failed to give Labour a significant boost its supporters had hoped for under new leader David Cunliffe.

A senior equities analyst has raised questions about Labour potentially scrapping SkyCity Entertainment Group's $402 million convention centre.

David Cunliffe has come under pressure to reveal whether a Labour-led Government would tear up National's pokies-for-convention centre deal with SkyCity.

Former Labour MP Chris Carter says he was lucky to escape possible death after a suicide car bomb exploded metres away from his Afghanistan home.

Labour's caucus meeting today will be the first MP Trevor Mallard has attended since he was demoted by new leader David Cunliffe.

A Labour Party candidate in the first Super City elections denies he committed electoral fraud.

Former Labour Cabinet minister John Tamihere's bid to test the water for a political comeback has landed him a seat on the Waitakere Licensing Trust Board

The Labour Party under David Cunliffe already looks sharper than the David Shearer version, writes Liam Dann, when it comes to picking up on business and economic issues and turning them into ammunition for political attack.

We now have a real choice, writes Bryan Gould. It's no longer enough for John Key to smile while coasting and ignoring public opinion. We have a real clash of ideas.

A Labour Government would "turn back the tide'' of National's "anti worker'' employment legislation, David Cunliffe told the Council of Trade Unions' conference today.

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.

Labour MP David Shearer will continue to push for free breakfasts and lunches in poorer schools despite no longer being leader of his party.

Labour's trade spokesman and a former Trade Minister Phil Goff says he understands why the Government is not releasing text of the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.

Former Labour Cabinet minister John Tamihere admits he is testing the water for a full-scale political comeback by standing for election to two local government positions.