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Focus: Finance Minister Grant Robertson speaks to media before Labour’s caucus meeting
Focus: Finance Minister Grant Robertson speaks to media before Labour’s caucus meeting. Video / Jason Walls
Complaint delays Manurewa selection
Council set to look at membership eligibility in candidate selection.
John Tamihere confirms Parliament bid, hits out at 'clueless, motley crew'
Parliamentary hopeful John Tamihere has taken aim at the Government and its Māori MPs.
Shane Jones fights back: Indian radicals won't shut me down
Jacinda Arden gives message to voters on Jones' fitness for government.
Jacinda Ardern urges voters to condemn Shane Jones' controversial comments
Ardern accused Jones, and NZ First, of 'electioneering' by making controversial comments.
Your kids and social media: Stalking, secret accounts - and stress
The British Govt is requiring tech companies to protect children. Will NZ follow suit?
Jacinda Ardern's words twisted in 'scary' audio clip
Is the capital of NZ set to change to Auckland? Or is all not as it seems?
David Cormack: Give nothing to racism, unless it's a Cabinet seat
Jacinda Ardern talks tough abroad but leaves a lot to be desired back home.
Govt building 10 state houses a day - but the wait-list for them is still growing
Govt is building more houses, but the waiting list for them keeps growing.
Hosking: KiwiBuild's ongoing failure
Comment. "A lot of hype, happiness, Kumbaya and good feels but no real results."
Barry Soper: Jacinda Ardern floors her fans in Fijian village
Rapturous greeting for Ardern during her visit to launch $3m sanitation project.
Political Roundup: Is enough being done about child poverty?
Many are claiming not enough is being done to address this urgent problem.
Tamihere eyes up tilt in old seat for Māori Party
Two seats down, one to go in Māori Party selections for prime seats.
Audrey Young: Nats, NZ First wrangle - who really killed the car tax plan?
The scheme has had a bumpy road ever since Julie Anne Genter proposed it.
Ashley Church: Why National will form the next government
Comment: NZ First's likely demise means Labour has a big mountain to climb.
Labour selects White for Auckland Central
Helen White was the Labour candidate in Auckland Central in 2017 too.
Cardiology crisis: DHB told heart patients 'consider private'
A leaked memo outlined year-long wait times. The DHB told patients: consider private.
Fran O'Sullivan: Bridges can't dodge the mud-slinging
Party leader's bid to dissociate himself from donations scandal just won't wash.
Audrey Young: Peters is handling his job as NZ First leader abysmally
Some claims of injustice are more just than others.
Barry Soper: Winston played Queen to reporters; was it the right song?
COMMENT: Peters is obviously feeling 'Under Pressure'.
Fran O'Sullivan: PM right to let Peters' keep his head - for now
The truth is, political funding in New Zealand has been murky for a very long time.
Young man fights for secrecy in Labour Party summer camp scandal
The man faced being labelled as the "young Labour Party sexual offender", says his lawyer.
Winston Peters denies his MPs sent covert photos to far-right blog
Peters has "no idea" who took the photos, but a senior MP says she knows but won't say.
Pattrick Smellie: Peters' NZ First scandal is making PM look weak
Pattrick Smellie argues the PM needs to assert her authority as the scandal drags on.
Simon Bridges sets sights on 'your back pocket'
National offers up 'back to basics' economic strategy of lower taxes and less regulation.
Prime Minister 'running scared' from Winston Peters – National
If claims against Winston Peters are true, National says he needs to step down.
Delay over bowel cancer screening decision 'costing lives'
"People are dying. It's not something where we are just talking about as a theory."
Audrey Young: Political partner's donations debacle tests Jacinda Ardern
You can usually count on Winston to make a bad situation worse, writes Audrey Young.
Hosking: Mike Moore shows how hollow politics has become
COMMENT: 'Parliament today is a pit of lifers, incompetents, apparatchiks and pretenders.'
Frank Greenall: VR goggles for election MooTube
It's great to be a Kiwi after the Tooth Fairy has waved her wand in the Year of Delivery.
Comment: Mallard mars first debate of year
Jacinda Ardern and Simon Bridges both made procedural errors. Guess who was reprimanded.