The Internet Mana Party says it would push for the next Government to give NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden safe passage and residency in New Zealand.

David Cunliffe faced a lecture theatre full of students at Waikato University and had smoko with workers at a Te Rapa factory.

Dear John and David. Please forgive the first-name familiarity. I'm older than you are so it doesn't feel terribly out of order.

With heavyweights Pita Sharples and Shane Jones out of the election race, there's a gaping hole in Maori politics and the most urban Maori electorate.

It was advertised as the Labour Party's last big policy of the election campaign. So small was it in size and so opaque was its intention that Labour's motive was anyone's guess.

Most of us have had euphoric moments so overwhelming as to be etched on one's memory ever more.

Labour has given a nod to the Greens and New Zealand First with a plan to set up a $100 million-a-year sovereign wealth fund that would invest in ‘‘strategic'' assets.

Labour leader David Cunliffe's final stop during a day of campaigning saw him harangued in te reo by a man angry at his stance of ruling out some parties after the election.

A Labour Government would establish a sovereign wealth fund to fund clean energy projects.

Can Twitter handle serious policy debates? This week has been dominated by tax policy.

There was cheering, dancing, and a personal gift of $50 to an Internet-Mana voter as Labour leader David Cunliffe traversed the diverse markets and malls of Auckland today.

Prime Minister dismisses claims GCSB was involved in mass surveillance of New Zealanders and attacks the Pulitzer-winning journalist who made them.

John Key is the king of the political selfie, the prince of the walkabout. His is a campaign high on charm and low on policy detail but one which the polls suggest is working.

It was a day to talk of cabbages and kings -- or at least kingmakers -- for Labour leader David Cunliffe in Napier.

Labour leader David Cunliffe is refusing to reveal who made the decision to rule the Maori Party out of a Labour government after several Labour MPs confirmed the decision had taken them by surprise.

On the face of it, Mana Party leader Hone Harawira and Labour Party hopeful Kelvin Davis agree on major issues that have plagued the Tai Tokerau electorate for years.

A move away from the adversarial court system for sexual and domestic violence may be back on the agenda after the resignation of former Justice Minister Judith Collins, a senior National MP says.

For the past month, National leader John Key and Labour leader David Cunliffe have bemoaned the focus on Dirty Politics and the lack of attention to their policies.

David Cunliffe is sticking by his decision to rule out the Maori Party in his government, but will not say if Labour would rather go back into Opposition than back down.

Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell says Labour's David Cunliffe may have done himself out of a chance of becoming Prime Minister by ruling out the Maori Party.

Finance Minister Bill English says tax cuts will begin taking effect from 2017 – conditions allowing - by which time a National Govt will have $1.5b a year free cash.

Labour leader David Cunliffe says there'll be a maximum of three parties in any Government he leads, and has ruled out including the Maori Party.

Labour's finance spokesman David Parker this morning jibed that Act-held Epsom should be used to trial that party's policy of abolishing the Resource Management Act.

"That hall looks as healthy as the Labour Party," someone remarked of the Runanga Miners' Hall - a building with a fine history to organised labour in the party's spiritual home.

After being relinquished by National's Chris Tremain, the battle for the seat of Napier has been heating up between Labour's Stuart Nash and National newcomer Wayne Walford.

The Labour Party election campaign is in a mess after one candidate reportedly made an anti-Semitic jibe shortly after another candidate sent a bizarre email.