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Ron Mark's attack on Melissa Lee's right to criticise her adopted country would have been poor in public but is appalling in Parliament.

Speaking on Ron Mark's 'go back to Korea' jab, Dame Susan Devoy said all New Zealanders had the right to an opinion no matter where they were born.

The corridors of power may be their playing field but the final 15 all have moves of their black-clad counterparts.

Does New Zealand have an authoritarian political culture?

While the Prime Minister is extremely open about his personal life, his government is increasingly opaque, writes Bryce Edwards.

John Armstrong's retirement from the parliamentary press gallery has brought a flurry of tributes.

The importance of National's support partners - Act, United Future and the Maori Party - has grown immensely since election night a year ago.

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.

The hairdresser next in line to enter Parliament if NZ First leader Winston Peters wins the Northland byelection is now a parliamentary staffer.

As an enormous crowd gathered outside Rome's San Giovanni basilica on Saturday, comedian Beppe Grillo had every reason to be jubilant.

"Is NZ's relationship with Indonesia so lacking that it could not tolerate a West Papuan independence activist speaking at a lunch-hour meeting?" asks John Armstrong.

Parliament provided a clear direction to the judiciary when it unanimously increased penalties for animal cruelty in 2010, writes Catriona MacLennan.