John Key and David Cunliffe have both ruled out any power sharing agreement with Winston Peters as coalition possibilities featured in the final leaders debate.

Policy is pretty easy for the minor political parties.

MMP initially saw the percentage of women MPs increase from around 20 per cent to 30 per cent but this is roughly where it has stayed for the past 18 years.

According to the University of Victoria, more than half of New Zealanders aged between 18 and 30 did not vote in the last general election.

Act leader Jamie Whyte calls the Green Party "not so much a political party as a religious movement, worshipping snails and ferns and all things Gaia".

The Internet Mana Party says it would push for the next Government to give NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden safe passage and residency in New Zealand.

John Key and David Cunliffe have faced off in round four of the pre-election debates, but who came out on top? The Herald's top political correspondents make their picks.

Click here for Claire Trevett's live blog from the leaders' debate between Prime Minister John Key and Labour leader David Cunliffe.

National Party leader John Key talks to Newstalk ZB's Leighton Smith about whether there are any international spy agencies in NZ, the alleged Warner Brothers email, and Kim Dotcom.

Prime Minister John Key acknowledged today that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's claim that New Zealanders' data is accessible through the controversial XKeyscore system "may well be right". However, he maintained that information will not have been gathered under any Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) mass surveillance programme as the agency doesn't have that capability.

New Zealand has sent spies into friendly countries to electronically snoop for the United States, an award-winning journalist claims.

Most parties avoid talk about "bottom lines" for fear of sounding too uncompromising.

David Cunliffe faced a lecture theatre full of students at Waikato University and had smoko with workers at a Te Rapa factory.

Dear John and David. Please forgive the first-name familiarity. I'm older than you are so it doesn't feel terribly out of order.

The term "trickle-down effect" should be used only to describe an unfortunate ailment that can affect the elderly.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig would push for a code of conduct for MPs to help cleanse the system of behaviour highlighted in Dirty Politics.

Hell hath no fury like a voter who feels he or she has been treated like a fool.

Political parties are tailoring all manner of policies for Auckland, or more precisely at 1,030,125 enrolled Jafas, to win their vote.

With heavyweights Pita Sharples and Shane Jones out of the election race, there's a gaping hole in Maori politics and the most urban Maori electorate.

Legal experts are uncertain whether Kim Dotcom's "Moment of Truth" event should be declared by the Internet Party as an election expense.

The National Party wants to double the number of people studying engineering at university in a bid to get more graduates into jobs in the high-tech sector.

Greens want every newborn child to get a free "welcome pack" at birth including a bed, clothes and other essentials, co-leader Metiria Turei revealed this morning.

Labour leader David Cunliffe wants the last TV election debate extended so he and John Key can debate the spying accusations from Kim Dotcom. Cunliffe would investigate the entire process if he was Prime Minister on monday. He also wants to win all seven Maori seats, even if that means a loss for Mana.

Former US intelligence operative Edward Snowden and fellow fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joined forces Monday to attack the New Zealand government, accusing it of mass surveillance on its people.