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Court threat over by-election tweet
The man who took a successful private prosecution against John Banks has threatened to take one over Labour leader David Cunliffe's by-election tweet.
The man who took a successful private prosecution against John Banks has threatened to take one over Labour leader David Cunliffe's by-election tweet.
Act Leader John Banks' decision to leave Parliament at the next election under the cloud of electoral fraud charges is not the end of the party, its president John Boscawen says.
NZ can look forward to cheaper broadband or higher data caps after National was yesterday left with no mates in Parliament to support its proposal to override price cuts.
How the new electorates will look when overlaid with 2011 polling place data? A Heralddata investigation includes this interactive graphic.
Greens co-leader Russel Norman is facing a challenge for the party leadership from a low-ranking Greens candidate.
Russel Norman was heckled in Parliament this week when he used the opportunity to express NZ's sympathy for the Philippines to deliver a harangue on the perils of climate change.
To accept the idea of being under constant observation is to accept imprisonment - ironically by the Land of the Free, writes Chris Barton.
What's his game? Is the PM misinformed? Or deliberately spreading misinformation? Chris Barton looks at the issues on the copper tax debate.
New documents show the David Henry inquiry asked Parliamentary Service for access to the phone records of Fairfax journalist Andrea Vance - but they were declined.
The service that provides ministers with chauffeur-driven and self-drive cars is always a touchy one with some taxpayers, considering it costs more than $7 million a year.
Rules for accessing emails, security pass details and other information inside Parliament will be reviewed after concerns an MP and a journalist were tracked without permission.
United Future leader Peter Dunne says he has been cleared by the Speaker of misleading a select committee about leaking a confidential report.
Independent MP Peter Dunne will submit 500 individually signed declarations from members in an effort to register the United Future party today.
The number of lobbyists approved for a free pass in Parliament by the Speaker has doubled in the past year.
United Future Peter Dunne is expected to spend the week settling into his much smaller office at Parliament.
National Party members are pushing for a new "waka-jumping" law to force rogue list MPs out of Parliament.
TVNZ's Shane Taurima will seek Labour's selection for the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election, saying the late Parekura Horomia had approached him about standing in the past.
Broadcaster Shane Taurima is considering a move into politics and has spoken to the Labour Party about running in the Ikaroa Rawhiti byelection next month.
The latest attempt at giving farmers a presence in Parliament and a potential rival to Act on the political right is getting close to attracting enough members to register for next year's election.
For my money this street-marching lark is simply fashionable behaviour, writes Bob Jones. It began here in the 1970s but prior to that there were huge ban-the-bomb marches in the 1950s.
Speaker David Carter, who threw out MPs for the first time this week, reflects on his first two months in an interview with political editor Audrey Young