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Paula Bennett: 'It's not true' - Stop the constant gossip about Ardern and Clarke

Let's make the criticism about performance and leave the personal stuff alone.

Australia heckles, sneakers and spies - inside PM's Pacific push

There was plenty of diplomacy on display at this year's event.

Hayden Munro: Trash-talking business a bad look for Luxon

Opinion: No one who's been paying attention would call those people soft.

Claire Trevett: Welcome to the worst job in politics, Andrew Little

OPINION: Andrew Little may well have cause to feel like a fall guy right now.

Analysis: Cost of living crisis threatens 'unity' Pacific leaders achieved

Covid, job losses and cost of living on minds of locals - not climate and geopolitics.

Steve Braunias: The secret diary of David Seymour

David Seymour's wish-list and his actions this week, as seen by Steve Braunias.

Bryce Edwards: Labour Govt answering demands for action on law and order

The Labour Government got one major issue right this week, says Bryce Edwards.

'Desperate' - Labour asks supporters to back Three Waters in Parliament

Labour is emailing supporters asking them to make their support for Three Waters known.

Auckland ferry overhaul - landmark or small wins?

Devonport gets shake-up but Waiheke service still sparking disputes.

Mike Hosking: Seize the day Christchurch - new stadium will crown you NZ's best city

OPINION: While Auckland and Wgtn fiddle and twiddle, Chch became a seismic blank canvas.

Thomas Coughlan: Luxon luckless overseas while Ardern fills her sails

OPINION: PM's overseas trips were mostly successful, at least on branding terms.

Analysis: Why US power play in the Pacific could 'backfire' and hurt NZ

History of broken promises and lack of 'respect' risk US powerplay in the Pacific.

David Seymour: Debating one person, one vote is not racism

OPINION: Act Party leader responds to being accused of stoking a cultural war.

Auckland mayoralty: Is it the 'Fes and Leo Show', or still too early to say?

OPINION: New mayoral poll creates some winners and losers but it's still early days.

Was Māori Party co-leader's joke about David Seymour a step too far?

Seymour cried foul after Rawiri Waititi joked about putting poisonous seeds in his water.

Nats slam $25m Waka Kotahi office 'extravaganza'

National slams Waka Kotahi's lavish $25m office fit-out.

Jarrod Gilbert: Govt's gang crackdown walks tightrope between rhetoric and real action

OPINION: The Government had to act, but it has resisted knee-jerk rules that won't work.

Opinion: 'Wicked problems' but no real solutions for gangs in proposed bill

Gangs are always blamed as the cause for our country's social ills, writes Denis O'Reilly