John Key

The Prime Minister is promising to toughen up local election campaign laws even though he accepts ACT Party leader John Banks did nothing wrong during the 2010 Auckland mayoral campaign. Audio

The Government says a loyalty bonus scheme will deter New Zealanders from quickly flicking off their shares in state energy companies. Audio

The Prime Minister is insisting the Government is acting in good faith over an urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing on water rights, after saying the Government has no obligation to heed the outcome. Audio

The Prime Minister says the sale of shares in public assets could be delayed if the Maori Council was to win an injunction in the High Court. Audio

The Prime Minister says the Government will abandon its Budget surplus target for 2014-15 if things get too tough, prompting the Labour Party leader David Shearer to accuse John Key of shifting the… Audio

The Prime Minister is rejecting calls from the Labour Party to sack his ACC Minister over her handling of the public corporation and its privacy breaches. Audio

Prime Minister John Key met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin at the end of his Europe visit and after arriving back in New Zealand yesterday said Spain and the worsening Eurozone crisis… Audio

The Prime Minister has been defending the Government's backdown on education policies to reporters in Hamburg. Audio

Prime minister John Key, speaking from London, says the government has to do a better job of explaining government policy to New Zealand parents while his education minister Hekia Parata has had the… Audio

The celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee have reached their culmination in London. Audio

The Prime Minister says he won't sit back and do nothing about revelations of drug abuse by adventure tourism operators but he won't confirm exactly what he will do. Audio

The Prime Minister is defending the actions of his Foreign Affairs Minister, Murray McCully and the way he's handling the cost cutting process. Audio

John Banks is now talking in more detail about the claims he faces over anonymous donations, and continues to insist he did not know two 25-thousand-dollar donations came from Kim Dotcom. Audio

The ACC Minister, Judith Collins, has sent letters threatening defamation action against Radio New Zealand and two Labour MPs. Audio

Prime Minister, John Key, is also in Seoul for the Nuclear Security Summit. He's also been discussing the progress of a South Korean free trade deal with the country's president, Lee Myung-bak. Audio

National's Nick Smith has quit all his ministerial portfolios over the help he gave a friend with her ACC claim, while he was the ACC Minister. Audio

More jobs losses are on the way for public servants with the government's announcement today of a new super ministry employing more three thousand staff. Audio

Further to that story, the Labour Party says the New Zealand consul Barbara Welton will lose her job as part of cuts at the Foreign Ministry. Audio

Opposition parties say some employers are getting tough on employees because they've been emboldened by looming changes to industrial law. Audio

The Government will pave the way for its sweeping welfare reforms with law changes beginning next month. Audio