Labour leader David Cunliffe says he’s sorry that he’s a man because men commit most family violence but Prime Minister John Key says the comment is 'silly'.

Politics columnist Toby Manhire leaks his version of the secret emails between the top players in Team Key.

I bet Labour wishes it wasn't an election year, writes Mike Hosking.

Editorial: The Labour Party has always struggled with the concept of "voluntary" school donations.

A former Labour Minister intervened three times in the immigration bid of Donghua Liu including waiving the English language requirement for the millionaire businessman.

If the Budget Bill English delivered in May was fiscally responsible and appropriately countercyclical.

Labour's plan to help struggling parents by tackling school donations is a political ploy- but at least it recognises the 'voluntary' nonsense, one principal says.

Labour wants to end "voluntary" school donations by offering a grants of $100 per student to schools that stop asking parents to fund "day to day" spending.

The Government is hoping to pass home affordability legislation to limit council charges on developers in the eight sitting days left before the election.

Wages have only gone up $34.53 annually against house prices, which are up by $38,000, according to a new report. Which regions fared the worst?

The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has donated $60,000 to the Labour Party and $15,000 to the Green Party, the union announced this morning.

Labour wants to end the dislocation of Pacific Island families who are split apart for years by New Zealand's immigration rules.

The roading announcement was also part of a wider strategy to convince voters that the Greens will be the driving force of any post-election coalition, writes John Armstrong.

Not so much your typical party conference; more a group-hug exercise in exorcising evil spirits.

The Herald on Sunday last week reported details from a statement signed by businessman Donghua Liu which said he spent "close to" $100k on a bottle of wine at a 2007 Labour Party fundraiser.

Deny, deny, deny. Attack, attack, attack. That's been Labour's response to businessman Donghua Liu claiming he donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Party.

The problem with political journalism in New Zealand is that we have MMP elections covered by a First-Past-the-Post Press Gallery.

Millionaire businessman Donghua Liu has hired a high-profile Queen's Counsel to deal with any legal action from the Labour Party.

Fired-up West Coast-Tasman MP Damien O'Connor says he would probably have crossed the floor in Parliament last night with or without the blessing of the Labour Party.

If it seems a dismal beginning to the election campaign, there is cause to hope that this has been a flash flood, rather than the start of a long storm, writes Toby Manhire.

The highest earning households in New Zealand are in the electorate the Prime Minister lives in, according to Census figures.

A war of words has broken out between United Future's Peter Dunne and Labour's Sue Moroney over the paid parental leave bill which has been scuppered by filibustering.

Labour plans to sock wealthy New Zealanders and multinationals for hundreds of millions of dollars in new taxes to fund new spending initiatives while posting slightly larger surpluses than National.

Editorial: Taxing the rich seems a defining policy of the Labour Party. It plays especially well to its left wing.

Controversial businessman Donghua Liu says he bid at Labour Party auctions and made anonymous donations to some MPs.

Labour's new tax plan would see the top rate lift to 36c in the dollar, and it is dangling the prospect of tax cuts if it got a second term, but not for the wealthy.

Controversial businessman Donghua Liu has issued a new statement to the Herald confirming "close to" $100k in total payments to Labour and its MPs.

Yesterday the Labour leader had to pick himself up off the floor, writes John Armstrong. David Cunliffe succeeded - just. He had John Key near the ropes if not on them, albeit very briefly.