If they were really interested in an answer, something more robust than a surname search could have been done, writes James Young.

Labour could learn a thing or two from the adaptable, influential, and canny businesswoman Taylor Swift, writes Claire Trevett.

The Government's proposed foreign house buyer law change could damage NZ's international reputation, a Parliamentary select committee heard yesterday.

The debate about non-resident Chinese buying Auckland houses could hurt bilateral relations and Labour has already done "immeasurable" damage to the links between the two countries, says a top boss.

Labour's Mt Roskill MP Phil Goff admits some of the constituents in his ethnically diverse electorate could be put off by his party's comments on Chinese housing investors.

Juwai.com has surveyed users and found 36 per cent of people spoken to bought property in New Zealand for investment.

Labour leader Andrew Little is going to have to tread on a few toes to resuscitate the wider party, writes John Armstrong.

Chinese newspaper accuses Labour of racism over property market data.

Phil Twyford writes: Here's the thing. We do need to have a mature public debate about Chinese foreign investment in New Zealand real estate.

Labour leader Andrew Little says there is no rational explanation for the Government's allowing an Australian housing provider to buy up to 500 state houses as part of housing reforms.

Families in urgent need of a state house are waiting twice as long compared to 18 months ago, Labour says.

Most people could have told the Labour Party exactly why it lost last year's election.

The Labour Party has launched into the controversy surrounding Fonterra's latest restructuring by saying chief executive Theo Spierings should take a voluntary pay cut.

Phil Twyford's reputation has grown as steadily as homeowners' and state house tenants' woes, writes Claire Trevett.

That the review into Labour's disastrous election defeat was leaked to the media is only the second most predictable thing about it, writes Phil Quin.

Labour has an oddly prudish approach to money, writes Claire Trevett. Its struggle to get any is partly down to pride - nobody likes to beg.

One of the founders of a proposed Labour-aligned lobby group says it will make some in the party uncomfortable but Labour cannot avoid the tough issues it is facing.

It did not take long. Just three days, if that, for the politicians to get voluntary euthanasia well and truly off the political agenda, writes John Armstrong.

The internally conducted review of Labour's abysmal performance before and during last year's election campaign is already being widely dismissed.

National has been asked to join other parties in Parliament and support an increase in the refugee quota.

The review led by former British Labour MP Bryan Gould contained a round-up of the reasons for Labour's dire election result of 25 per cent.

Judith Collins tonight released emails that show a $30,000 door that will separate Labour MPs from National MPs sharing a floor in Parliament House was opposed by the National Party.

A boat of asylum seekers had a credible chance of reaching NZ - but the Government will not say what options were being considered if that had happened.

Labour MP and possible mayoral contender Phil Goff has joined prominent Aucklanders in a second open letter calling on Ports of Auckland and Auckland Council to stop port expansion.

It is too early in Andrew Little's career as a party leader to be ruling out realistic answers to problems he would face if he leads Labour to power.

Prime Minister John Key says axing the $1000 kickstart grant to new KiwiSaver members in the Budget "will not make a blind bit of difference to the number of people who join".

Former Act leader Don Brash has approached the party to ask whether National MP Maurice Williamson could join, but he has been unanimously rejected.

Bill English said the forecast super costs of $30 billion by 2030 were large but ruled out changing anything, saying it was affordable "at the moment".

Keeping silent about axing the $1000 kickstart payment for new KiwiSaver members, isn't a broken promise, strictly speaking, writes Audrey Young.