Jacinda Ardern will be Labour leader and Prime Minister of New Zealand in the next ten years, predicts political commentator David Farrar.

William Yan was found not guilty of immigration fraud, but little more is certain about our highest-profile new citizen.

Finance Minister Bill English describes it as "probably the tightest Budget in the last 20 years" while opposition parties have labelled it as "zero hope" and drab. So is National's new budget any good?

Labour MP Shane Jones has supported the move by party leader David Shearer to stand him down and seek an investigation from the Auditor General into his handling of the citizenship application of Chinese businessman William Yan.