Proposed changes to superannuation in New Zealand have inflamed resentment between Baby boomers and younger generations.

Two Cabinet Ministers won't get their pension until age 67. But they're OK with it, saying they are likely to live longer.

COMMENT: Bill English and team made a hash of announcing the plan to lift the eligibility age for superannuation.

The Prime Minister's proposal to lift the retirement age has been rejected by National's likely coalition partners and opponents.

National Party has stunned its critics with a plan for national superannuation.

Labour's leader passes up a chance to update the superannuation age.

Bill English remains tight-lipped about possible changes to Super, but has ruled out means-testing or changing the way it is paid.

COMMENT: The retirement age debate shows politics is frustrating, says Rachel Smalley. Parties have to do what they can to be elected, but they should be authentic.

The Government will need to do more for New Zealand Super if its rising costs are to be managed, experts say.

COMMENT: She has authenticity, credibility, intelligence and potential. Yet so many people reduce Ardern simply to her looks, says Rachel Smalley.

Labour's Stuart Nash will be up against three or more others in race for seat in Parliament

Housing shortages are likely to dominate the political conversation as the election looms

Prime Minister Bill English is defending the latest increase in net migration and says he is not looking at curbing demand.

Isaac Davison takes the pulse of the parties to reveal who is in good health and who is a dead man walking.

"If anyone thinks it is going to be safe after this election, then they had better think again," The NZ First leader says.

Hastings mayor Lawrence Yule is the National Party candidate for Tukituki.

Former Prime Minister John Key is consigned to a distant memory as PM Bill English inherits almost all of Key's support in new poll.

After his first major speech as Finance Minister, Steven Joyce talks to Liam Dann about economics, social investment and the odds of tax cuts in the upcoming budget.

Avondale and Mt Roskill could be next in line for large-scale housing projects, the Government says.

Advance voting kicks off in the Mt Albert by-election today, but one of the main candidates is worried no one will turn up.

John Key says the decision to resign as Prime Minister was the hardest of his life.

The Government remains unconvinced about a proposal to put a cap on how much money households can borrow for a mortgage.

Former Prime Minister John Key is back at Parliament - for a limited time.

Protesters want the legalisation of medicinal marijuana to be an election issue.

The naming of election day always intensifies the focus on politics.

Among the new targets set by Bill English, police will be attending 98 per cent of burglaries within 48 hours, up from current rates of 86 per cent.

The English and Bennett team is bigger than the sum of its parts, writes Audrey Young, after the Prime Minister's State of the Nation address.

English says NZ First an 'unlikely' choice of governing partner, saying Nats prefer to stick to their present allies.

New Zealand will go to the polls on September 23, Prime Minister Bill English announced this afternoon.

COMMENT: The new PM spent nearly five hours at the horse sales in what should be a busy election year, writes Audrey Young.