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Claire Trevett: Brownlee's Operation Little proves a success

COMMENT: At first blush, the Government's invitation to Labour leader Andrew Little to visit the troops in Iraq appeared to be a trick.

Rodney Hide: Niue deal squeaky clean

COMMENT: Politics can be nasty. It's often incompetent. Somehow Little has managed to plumb new depths.

Audrey Young: Housing chaos fixing Twyford on landscape

COMMENT: Twyford has held on to housing over three leaders in three years, which speaks for his grip on the portfolio, writes Audrey Young.

Faafoi elevated into Labour's shadow Cabinet

Audrey Young: Labour's new focus is all about the leader

COMMENT: Frustration at fall in polls will blow over and party's best shot at recovery lies with Andrew Little.

Barry Soper: Labour in need of consistent message

COMMENT: This year it's gone from bad to worse for Labour, writes Barry Soper. Even though John Key lost the flag debate he's untainted with National at 50 percent.

Editorial: Labour will just have to stick it out

A four-point drop in a Colmar Brunton poll taken for TVNZ last week must be a shock to supporters of the Labour Party.

Larry Williams: Labour train wreck chugs on

Rodney Hide: Powerless Little left on fringes

COMMENT: Every time I think of Labour Leader Andrew Little - which I must confess is getting less and less - I can't help but feel sorry for him.

Larry Williams: Little's call on interest rates 'mindless'

Figures show Little may have a point

Immigration NZ figures show 20,000 work visas were given to chefs from overseas in the past five years.

Audrey Young: Little his own worst enemy with talk of legislating for interest rates

COMMENT: Little gifted National a new weapon to use against his party, the enemy of orthodoxy, writes Audrey Young.

Labour questions police 'underspend'

Stuart Nash highlighted the spending patterns after a Herald investigation revealed more than 90 per cent of burglaries went unsolved last year.

Breakthrough on zero hours victory for all

The Labour Party is justifiably celebrating a victory on legislation to end "zero-hour contracts" even if it is victory on a fine point of law.

Claire Trevett: Key faces more colds as farming sneezes

It was an ominous sign when Prime Minister John Key wandered into his weekly post-Cabinet press conference and announced, "I've got a bit of a head cold."

Editorial: Labour could make mark on security report

Little more than two years have passed since the country had an intense debate on the rightful limits of the state's powers of domestic surveillance.

Barry Soper: Only trouble with a laudable policy

They all suffer from it but some of them are more inflicted with it than others. Essentially it's the politics of convenience, writes Barry Soper.

Audrey Young: Hands across the parliamentary aisle

The longer a Government goes on, the more it needs to minimise the fronts on which it can be attacked, writes Audrey Young.