Phil Goff announced his party wants to see changes in the Reserve Bank's monetary policy framework.

John Key was celebrating one year in office today, but Labour leader Phil Goff stole the show with proposed policy changes.

Copenhagen is looming and there is no sign of an ETS deal.

It’s hard to believe in this day and age men are paid more than women.

Possibly NZ's strangest accident: Kelly Lawson was in a boat when a dolphin, thought to weigh 300kg, jumped onto it

Angry bikers have vowed to step up protests against the Government's plans to ramp up their ACC levies.

Prime Minister John Key has just returned from APEC with promises of renewed negotiations with the US on free trade.

National is negotiating with the Maori Party over 10 sticking points in the emissions trading scheme (ETS), Climate Change Minister Nick Smith says.

The Government has found itself under fire in Parliament over its secret dealing with Maori iwi leaders to give free Crown land for Maori forester’s profits.

Political commentator Linda Clark discusses the week in politics on Sunrise this morning.

The cost to taxpayers of playing our part in reducing global carbon emissions has more than doubled to an estimated $110 billion. But Maori will get a special deal - it's the price for Maori Party support of the Government's emissions trading scheme.

All cellphone packaging and advertising should include information on how much radiation the phones emit, said the Green Party yesterday.

Hone Harawira has been given two weeks to decide and discuss his future with the Maori Party.

It is looking increasingly likely that rebel MP Hone Harawira will resign from the Maori Party.

Labour MP Trevor Mallard will be watching the All Blacks in London next weekend - courtesy of the taxpayer.

Watch the full interview with Prime Minister John Key.

Watch the full interview with Labour leader Phil Goff.

Political commentators Matt McCarten and Linda Clark discuss maverick Maori party MP Hone Harawira.

It has been talked up all year, and today work officially got underway on the first part of the Prime Minister’s pet project – a national cycleway.

As Hone Harawira's apology turned into attack, advocating Labour leader Phil Goff be shot for his party's foreshore and seabed law, he invited this irate reaction from Mr Goff.

Hone Harawira held a news conference at the Waipapa Marae this afternoon to answer questions regarding his unauthorised visit to Paris and allegations of racism.

Rebel Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has apologised for the “poor choice of words” he used in an email to someone who questioned his spending of taxpayer money on travel.

The pressure is mounting on Maori Party MP Hone Harawira to publicly apologise for an offensive he email sent last week where he defended a side trip to Paris while on Parliamentary business in Europe.

Rodney Hide has said "sorry" and repaid a total of $22,000. But what does the public think of the so called 'perk buster'. Campbell Live takes to the streets of Newmarket to gauge public opinion.

Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples has broken his silence to 3 News about Hone Harawira, saying his rebel MP should apologise to the nation.

ACT leader Rodney Hide has apologised for claiming taxpayer money to take his partner on overseas trips and says he will repay all of it.

Hone Harawira, is set to apologise for an angry email written to explain why he dodged official Parliamentary business while in Europe.

Hone Harawira's future in the Maori Party hangs in the balance.

More than 1800 court staff walked off the job this morning, disrupting court sittings around the country for the second time this week.

Hone Harawira and the Maori Party are tonight on the brink of a political divorce.

Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has reacted to an email criticising him for bunking off a work trip to visit Paris by lashing out at white people.

After a year in power, John Key is still top of the polls.

Ali Ikram revisits ACT Leader Rodney Hide's gaffe with his take on “Nothing-Gate”.

While Act leader Rodney Hide was apologising profusely today, Maori Party MP Hone Harawira was making no apologies for his recent jaunt to Paris.

It is back to the drawing board for Auckland's Queen's Wharf, with all the submitted designs dropped.

ACT leader Rodney Hide has apologised for criticising Prime Minister John Key and the National Party yesterday, in which he implied that ACT were running the Government.

There's big political trouble in Invercargill. Just when you thought they were one big conga, dancing around the Ranfurly Shield, it turns out there's a conspiracy to get rid of the mayor. At least Mayor Tim Shadbolt thinks there is.

Auckland's new medical laboratory provider Labtests lied to district health boards (DHBs) about its safety systems, doctors angry at issues with the service were told last night.

Watch the full interview with Linda Clark.

Watch the full interview with John Key.

Government Ministers will be able to take their girlfriends, wives or partners on overseas trips funded by the taxpayer, because Prime Minister John Key says he cannot stop them.

A poll on the MMP electoral system reveals New Zealanders are widely opposed to it, ahead of a referendum in 2011.

Cabinet will today discuss whether to repeal the Foreshore and Seabed legislation, it has been reported.

It is just over a month until the landmark UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where the next major step onwards from the 1997 Kyoto protocol will be decided.

Some psychotherapists are refusing to treat people who claim to have been sexually abused or raped because of ACC’s tough new laws.

Perk-busting MP Rodney Hide has himself been busted for making full use of travel perks for MPs.

By 2050, 1.3 million kiwis will be getting national superannuation. That is more than double the current number and will cost taxpayers $71 billion.

ACT leader Rodney Hide has defended his use of travel perks - saying he cleared his cost with the Prime Minister's office before goingo on a trip with his partner.

Parliament’s speaker Lockwood Smith has released the second round of MPs’ recent expenses.

Cow dung has been hurled in political protests before, but now a Canterbury artist has found a new way to use dung to make a political point.

Whether you live on the street or in Auckland's plush Parati Drive, when you turn 65 the Government pays you $14,000 every year.

Labour MP Chris Carter's travel expenses were considerably lower in the second disclosure of MPs' expenses released today.

Labour isn't letting up on Finance Minister Bill English despite the Auditor-General's Office deciding it doesn't need to hold an inquiry into housing allowances he received earlier this year.

Green MP Sue Bradford has left the beehive in search of greener pasture.

Campbell Live investigates Bill English fronting ads on TVNZ.

A report by the Auditor General into MP housing allowances and alleged rorting of the system has just been made public.

Green party member Sue Kedgley discusses food labelling.

Phil Goff admits that Labour using bogus names when phone polling recently was a mistake that shouldn't happen again.

New Zealanders are being urged to join a "march for democracy" next month after the result of a referendum on the anti-smacking law was rejected by Prime Minister John Key.

Political analyst Linda Clark reviews the week in politics.