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Labour reshuffle - winners and losers
David Cunliffe has done a 'mini reshuffle' of his party MPs today - prompted by the resignation of Shane Jones.

Taurima's future rides on TVNZ findings
Labour is considering blocking former TVNZ broadcaster Shane Taurima as a candidate if a TVNZ investigation is too damaging for him and the party.

Bryce Edwards: Is the National Government unravelling?
If Judith Collins is any indication of the health of the Government, it is in serious trouble, writes Bryce Edwards. Her bizarre actions at the weekend made her appear arrogant and out of control and suggest the pressure is taking its toll.

John Armstrong: Can Collins survive as a minister?
A torrid question-time in Parliament tomorrow could make or break embattled Justice Minister Judith Collins, political columnist John Armstrong writes.

Delays continue in selecting Tamaki Makaurau seat
Labour is still facing delays in selecting its candidate in the key Tamaki Makaurau seat as a result of broadcaster and potential candidate Shane Taurima's TVNZ problems.

Joyce on Labour KiwiSaver plan
National fired a broadside yesterday at Labour's plan to control interest rates with the help of compulsory KiwiSaver.

Kiwisaver plan: 'Just a thought bubble'
The Government and its political allies have gone on the attack over Labour’s ground-breaking interest rates and savings policy, after signs the plan was getting traction.

Labour can win: English
Labour could still win power at the next election, National deputy leader and Finance Minister Bill English said in a speech warning against complacency.

Compulsory KiwiSaver exempts 300,000
More than 300,000 business owners and self-employed people would be exempted from Labour's new policy to make workers pay more into KiwiSaver to dampen inflation.

Claire Trevett: Labour 'moves on' with some help from National
Claire Trevett looks at a week of politics dominated by policy announcements and the resignation of Shane Jones from the Labour Party.

Brian Fallow: Labour's plan a subtly blunt instrument
What we got from Labour's finance spokesman David Parker on Tuesday was a much broader economic policy than that would imply, writes Brian Fallow.

Labour's KiwiSaver 'bun fight'
Labour's proposal to introduce a variable contribution rate to compulsory KiwiSaver as a counter-cyclical tool has received mixed reviews from bank economists.

Brian Rudman: It's high time we accepted most of us want a fix
The sensible move should have been to fast-track the proposed market, thereby ensuring the drugs being smoked by young NZers have been tested and are "safe", writes Brian Rudman.

Fran O'Sullivan: Flaws in Labour's inflation plan
If Labour finance spokesman David Parker is proposing a job swap with the Reserve Bank Governor he should say so, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Editorial: Imaginative policy option to rises in interest rates
Editorial: The Labour Party has done well to come up with a constructive monetary policy for the coming election.

Labour's plan 'nothing new'
Finance Minister Bill English has rubbished Labour's new Kiwisaver plan, but the policy has received support from employers.

Mortgage advantage with Labour
Kiwibank has increased its interest rates just as the Labour party gears up to reveal its proposed changes to monetary policy this morning.

Bryce Edwards: What does the Labour Party want to be?
Shane Jones has become a lightning rod for the discussion about the state of the Labour Party, and about what it means to be leftwing in 2014, writes Bryce Edwards.

PM: Leaving legal highs on market was a mistake
PM John Key says leaving some synthetic drugs on the market was “a mistake” and Government should have banned all products until a rigorous testing regime was in place.

Legal-highs ban: Families elated
New Zealanders whose lives have been blighted by the dangers of legal highs are thrilled by plans to pull them from sale within a fortnight.

Sex offender register will need iron-clad security - experts
A register tracking convicted child sex offenders could be introduced by the end of the year.

'Right man in the wrong party'
When Shane Jones walked away from Labour this week, he may have taken thousands more voters just like him.

Herald on Sunday editorial: Labouring under false impressions
Editorial: Kelvin Davis is the pawn in one of the most vexed strategic decisions facing David Cunliffe and the Labour Party strategists this election.

Rodney Hide: Reverse racism fails to raise ire
It's a wonderfully Kiwi thing that National Party honcho Sir Wira Gardiner financially supported Shane Jones' bid to become Labour leader.

Ardern, the fun do-gooder
The Labour list MP, Jacinda Ardern, is one of the few politicians who lets you go to her house and what's more, she lets you have a good nosy around.

Keeping up without Jones
In March last year, Labour MP Jones held a "Lazarus Party" to celebrate his comeback after being cleared of wrongdoing in an Auditor-General's probe into a citizenship decision he made.

John Armstrong: Labour's brutal week reveals Achilles heel
Could things get any worse for David Cunliffe than they did this week? John Armstrong on Labour's schisms.