Despite the lack of a beverage-based endorsement, the true-blue seat of Epsom remains dogged by controversy this election.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is in negotiation in the hope of opening more charter schools next year, possibly allowing tertiary institutions to run them.

Act Party leader Dr Jamie Whyte said the party wants to see Youth Court and Family Court open to public scrutiny.

United Future leader Peter Dunne is confident his "flexi-super" proposal would be advanced in any third term National Government without compromising John Key's promises on superannuation.

Act leader Jamie Whyte says Christine Rankin's entry into the Epsom election contest will have no impact because her Conservative party appeals to simple-minded voters, not educated Epsom voters.

Epsom election candidates faced off at a public debate last night, with one promising to name a convicted sex offender with name suppression under parliamentary privilege.

Politicians seldom get to anoint a successor. That was especially so for me. Readers may recall I left with a bit of a hiss and a roar at a time I least expected it.

Act leader Jamie Whyte says his speech on Maori legal privilege shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone, not least a former candidate who quit.

An ACT party candidate and board member has reportedly resigned over his leader's speech on race, which he says was a 'stunt' for the polls.

Act leader Jamie Whyte's been caught short once again - this time clueless about Whanau Ora.

Conservative Party hopeful Christine Rankin is tossing her name into the Epsom hat and positioning herself as the candidate with clean hands.

Jamie Whyte's college specialties included the nature of truth and belief, but his speech to the Waikato Conference stretched one and beggared the other, writes Paul Little.

When Dame Susan Devoy was appointed Race Relations Commissioner last year, the intelligentsia sniffed at the choice of a squash champion.

Toby Manhire took Jamie Whyte to a local pub quiz for our candid series on party leaders

In those terms, it is hard to know what to make of Whyte's self-made maelstrom around race and privilege in New Zealand law.

Act Leader Jamie Whyte called for a taskforce to root out and repeal laws giving special treatment to Maori as race once again loomed as an election issue today.

What goes through the minds of educational professionals when they see the lengths that property owners will go to remain in a prestigious school zone?

One thing Whyte seems to ignore, despite his huge intelligence, is that some ideas which sound perfectly rational on paper bear no resemblance to human existence as we know it.

A DVD of The Wolf of Wall Street will be introduced to court as evidence in a private prosecution against Prime Minister John Key and a senior police officer.

Act's education policy of allowing schools to opt into a charter school format has prompted an education union to urge National to steer clear of any coalition partnership deals.

Act wants to give all state schools the option of becoming charter schools, Act leader Jamie Whyte said today.

National's little Act Party poodle seems to be running scared of the attention-seeking yapping of wannabe Conservative Party lapdog Colin Craig, writes Brian Rudman.

The IPCA is evaluating complaints about the police decision not to pursue electoral fraud charges against Act MP John Banks and may launch a formal investigation.

John Banks has announced his resignation. But can this final act, for Act, stop him - or at least his legacy - from playing a key role in the election campaign?

Prime Minister John Key says National would have refused to accept some votes of Act MP John Banks had he not said he would quit Parliament.