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The National Party is set to reveal its plans to cut taxes and provide details on how it will pay for them on Wednesday morning. RNZ political editor Jane Patterson spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss. Audio

For the last 63 years Auckland's Tamaki electorate has been a true blue seat, a mere tap in for National. But the ACT Party believes that incumbent MP Simon O'Connor is on shaky politcal ground: He's… Audio

National Party leader Christopher Luxon had his media conference derailed by a heckler from the Freedoms New Zealand party this afternoon. The man was hanging over a fence behind where Mr Luxon was… Video, Audio

Labour's leader Chris Hipkins is painting National, ACT and New Zealand First as a "coalition of fear".

In a speech yesterday, Hipkins ruled out working with those parties, saying they would deliver… Audio

A report co-authored by a UN judge has added to growing international calls for reparations to be paid by perpetrators of transatlantic slavery. The Brattle Group Report calculates 31 former… Audio

Today is National Poetry day and continuing the Afternoons tradition - we'll be holding our annual audience poetry slam competition. To judge again this year we have Dr Tracey Slaughter along in the… Audio

Parliament will censure National MP Tim van de Molen next week, for threatening Transport Committee chair Shanan Halbert and impeding him in his parliamentary duties.

The privileges committee found… Audio

A lifetime Black Power member says National's leader Christopher Luxon will come to regret going hard on gangs.

The National Party is promising to end all government contracts for gang programmes, if… Audio

National MP Tim van de Molen will be censured by Parliament and has been stripped of his portfolios after it was found he acted in a threatening manner towards a Labour MP and select committee chair… Audio

ACT endures scrutiny, Shane Jones impersonates Julie Andrews and we recall 1999, while Lacklustre Luxon and Ho Hum Hipkins fail to inspire. Video, Audio

Former National Leader Todd Muller admits he was tempted by the prospect of being a minister, but doesn't doubt his decision to leave politics.

Muller delivered his valedictory statement - which… Audio

Has the National Party gone woke? Dunedinites awoke this morning to their local paper telling them National List MP Michael Woodhouse is heading for political retirement because he's a man. He's since… Audio

As the government moves to crack down on vapes. Figures show this could be a record year for the number children potentially poisoned by the liquid nicotine used in them. The National poisons centre… Video, Audio

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to look at what was discussed at the 49th national Labor conference, particularly in regard to the AUKUS agreement. Not all in the party are… Audio

Senior National MP Michael Woodhouse says a lack of diversity in safe blue electorates is what pushed him out. 

Woodhouse announced he would only stand in an electorate seat after being bumped down… Audio

National is up in the polls, and at the weekend the party released its list to show voters who they would be backing if they voted for the centre-right.

It wasn't without controversy though, with… Audio

With the gap between the left and right blocs widening in the latest political poll, attention is shifting to what a possible National and Act government could look like.

It has prompted National… Audio

The National Party is outstripping Labour for donations at a rate of seven to one.

And with fewer than six weeks until advance voting opens, the money rolling in has been described as… Audio

A New Zealand woman who moved to Australia with her son for life-saving cancer treatment is describing the National Party's promise, if elected, to fund new cancer drugs as "wonderful" but… Audio

The Cancer Society is questioning whether the health system will be able to cope with the extra work of administering thirteen new cancer treatments National is promising to fund of elected in… Audio

National's promising a potential life line for some cancer patients if it's in government . The party says it will pay for 13 cancer treatments that are already helping extend survival rates in… Video, Audio

The National Party has revealed its list for the 2023 general election, and a former Minister has quit as a result.

Michael Woodhouse, a senior minister under both John Key and Bill English… Audio

Labour will make financial literacy classes compulsory for all students from 2025, if it wins the election, with schools required to teach skills including budgeting, saving, managing bills and… Audio