Bill in works to make domestic violence a factor at sentencing - but first, the beach.

Labour says it will tackle "aggressive tax avoidance" by multinationals such as Facebook and Google which it says is costing the taxman hundreds of millions of dollars.

Labour's David Cunliffe faces a conundrum - how to convince New Zealand voters it's time to break away from the "old economic orthodoxies" when the data shows the country is poised for a relative boom, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

David Cunliffe says he has been given a written warning about a tweet he posted on the day of the Christchurch East byelection urging people to vote for Poto Williams.

What a useful chap David Cunliffe is to have with you at a bunfight, writes Kerre McIvor.

A Labour Party candidate in the first Super City elections has been found guilty of two counts of using forged documents but has been acquitted on 18 other electoral fraud allegations.

A police log the Maori Party claims shows extended surveillance of those associated with the Ruatoki raids contains nothing to be worried about, National's Tau Henare says.

Labour's Shane Jones says Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell should "put up or shut up" over Operation Eight and Ruatoki raids documents.

Editorial: Regulation appeals to governments because it is the easiest response to a problem. But each affects people's freedom in some way.

Mood for change seen in quake city as a good omen for party's chances in next year's election, says Cunliffe.

Shadow police minister Jacinda Ardern says she has been "banned" from visiting police stations by the Police Minister because cops were too busy to host her during the summer months.

Jim Anderton says some people were worrying that he was working Labour's Christchurch East byelection candidate Poto Williams so hard she was exhausted.

Labour spokesman says foreign firms' drive for big profits putting local industries in jeopardy.

David Cunliffe has seized the moral high ground from the PM by offering to pay compensation to the Pike River families, John Armstrong says.

Air New Zealand has frequently been a political football for politicians of all stripes.

Is David Cunliffe exploiting the Pike River tragedy for political purposes? Of course he is, writes John Armstrong.

Allies and enemies of David Cunliffe are quickly discovering that Labour's leader is something of a two-headed hydra, says John Armstrong.

Labour leader David Cunliffe says John Tamihere has a "snowflake's" chance of becoming a Labour candidate for the next election.

You have to feel for David Cunliffe. He is beavering away making Labour a credible alternative, say Rodney Hide.

Spring has sprung and with it a focus on renewal among political parties, writes Claire Trevett. National MPs are obediently acting like deciduous trees.

The Government caucus has only 14 women, only 24 per cent of its 59 MPs, resulting in a Parliament, as a whole, in which only 32 per cent of MPs are women, writes Brian Rudman.

The bipartisan position on free trade is now in limbo, and Labour's position of withholding support until it sees details is not as radical as the original plan to oppose it.

Labour's new rule to ensure at least half of its MPs are women by 2017 is likely to lead to increased pressure on Phil Goff and Trevor Mallard to quit Parliament.

The Labour Party's annual conference was a case of veering from the seemingly ridiculous to the truly sublime, writes John Armstrong

Labour leader David Cunliffe says it won't be very hard for Labour to reach its newly adopted target of at least 45 per cent women MPs after next year's election.