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 Labour Party’s superficial and strange review of its election performance suggests that the party’s future is rather dim, writes Bryce Edwards.

Labour MP David Parker's bill to ensure contract workers such as cleaners, couriers, musicians and fast food delivery workers are paid at equal or higher rates to the minimum wage will go before Parliament.

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

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

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.

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.

Transsexual former MP Georgina Beyer does not believe taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery should be available "off the rack".

Editorial: The PM does not want to call it a capital gains tax but that is what it is. Houses bought as investment property will have their capital gain taxed if they are sold within two years.

Finance Minister Bill English says he does not know what effect the new rules on taxing capital gain on residential properties and new disclosure rules from non-resident buyers will have on the....

Labour would like to see targeted investment in regional NZ in next week's Budget, Grant Robertson said yesterday in his first major speech since becoming finance spokesman.

The Labour Party has floated the idea of withholding state support such as Working for Families tax credits from people who are not enrolled to vote.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully has taken Shane Jones, David Shearer and Winston Peters with him for his trip to the Cook Islands, where he is holding talks.

A new deadline of 50 years to strengthen earthquake-prone buildings will preserve Auckland's heritage areas, a trust that owns old buildings says.

Andrew Little has tarnished his own reputation for fair play by trying to expose the name of the Cabinet minister whose brother faces child indecency charges, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Labour has proposed withholding state support such as tax credits and Working For Families from people who are not enrolled to vote.

Andrew Little is inviting the Barbarians at the gate into Labour's lair in an attempt to lift the party's economic credentials, writes John Armstrong.

Andrew Little says John Key should have acted sooner to address any potential conflicts of interest involving a Minister whose brother faces child indecency charges.

Grant Robertson has a tough job as Labour's finance spokesman. He has to critique National's performance without yet having formulated his party's own economic policy.

Rodney Hide writes: Little is polling below Labour's previous leaders, Cunliffe and Shearer. Peters is breathing down his neck. Key remains on 51% as preferred PM.

Having military deaths only investigated in-house raises suspicions that this is a convenient way of closing down investigation and criticism - Labour.

Just as Labour governments are prone to cater to even the more extravagant wishes of trade unionists, so their National counterparts can find it difficult to resist the over-the-top whims of....

The member of Parliament-elect for Northland, Winston Raymond Peters, returned to the House this week, a Phoenix rising, a man transformed, writes Claire Trevett.