Mana leader Hone Harawira claims the National, Labour and Maori parties are all out to unseat him by throwing their weight behind Labour's Kelvin Davis.

PM John Key can't rule out US spy agency NSA having NZers' electronic communications under surveillance, even if this country's GCSB doesn't.

Labour leader David Cunliffe says he has sought reassurance from former Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark about the party's role in recent spying revelations.

John Key has struck directly at a specific detail in the spying claims, saying new laws passed last year had nothing to do with the alleged mass surveillance project.

The head of the Southern Cross Cable Network has disputed Prime Minister John Key's claim that a cable had been tapped into as part of a proposition to collect metadata.

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.

The National Party wants to double the number of people studying engineering at university in a bid to get more graduates into jobs in the high-tech sector.

Tired and distracted Cantabrians still living in uncertain times might stay away from the polls in droves, election experts fear.

The PM has been accused of withholding critical information on proposed mass surveillance from the public ahead of new spying legislation going through Parliament.

John Key says he won't release documents that show that spy agencies do not conduct mass surveillance until after Glenn Greenwald tries to prove the claim.

John Key says "without a shadow of a doubt GCSB does not conduct mass surveillance on New Zealand".

This time next week the people will have spoken - an election is that rare and precious moment when everyone in the country can be heard.

Paul Little writes: It has been a great election campaign for hoardings, which have done so much to brighten commuters' days.

John Key will declassify highly sensitive documents to prove the GCSB pulled the plug on plans to spy on New Zealanders.

The coolest head I have ever seen on a pair of shoulders is John Key's, writes Rodney Hide.

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

Prime Minister John Key has ruled out a last minute deal in the Napier electorate

He called him ''Shylock'' and a ''nasty little creep'' but Labour candidate Steve Gibson was among those queueing to shake hands with Prime Minister John Key today

Satirists would be safe from breaching Electoral Commission rules if their work was only for humour and not as an election advertisement, a court has been told.

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.

Labour and the Greens are backing National's plan to get all prisoners working or studying fulltime within three years.

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.

A re-elected National Government would keep all current military bases open and operational, Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman says.

A re-elected National Government would keep all current military bases open and operational, Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman says.

It seems New Zealand First leader Winston Peters can’t quite bring himself to utter the words “Colin Craig“or “the Conservative Party“.

As expected, the National Party's announcement yesterday on proposed tax cuts was short on specifics and long on conditionality.