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For some analysis on the future of Chris Carter, I'm joined by political commentators Chris Trotter and David Farrar. Audio

Joining us is our political editor, Brent Edwards. Audio

Joining us to discuss this further is our Political Editor Brent Edwards. Audio

Our political editor, Brent Edwards joins us. Audio

The estimated half a million New Zealanders living in Australia could be caught up in political point-scoring over immigration in the Australian general election. Audio

The governments backdown on mining in national parks and uncertainty remains over Aucklands party central for The Rugby World Cup. Audio

The Government this week finally admitted defeat on its plans to allow mining on protected conservation land. Audio

Kent Weaver, professor of public policy and government at Georgetown University, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Audio

Andrew Campbell and Matthew Hooton discuss why they think the Government's changed employment laws, and what it would take for the National Party to support axing GST on healthy food. Audio

With us is our political editor, Brent Edwards. Audio

The National Party is holding its annual conference in Auckland this weekend. Audio

The politics of the "party central" fiasco, foreign investment in farmland and Phil Goff. Audio

Monetary policy on the whole has tended to be supported on a bi-partisan basis by political parties but recently Labour has broken ranks calling for a rethink. Audio

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has dismissed claims that his presidential campaign received 150-thousand euros in illegal party financing. Audio

How and why the world's diverse political institutions came to be Audio

The politics of the proposed 10 percent pay rise for MPs in exchange for a reduction in travel"perks"and the National party presidency. Audio

Households face higher prices from this week as the Emissions Trading Scheme pushes up the cost of power and petrol and ACC charges rise. Audio

Joining us is our political editor Brent Edwards. Audio

The Labour Party leader and the Prime Minister have gone head to head in Parliament, as the opposition tries to ramp up its campaign over the spiralling cost of living. Audio

The Auckland mayoralty race, the national standards boycott and the leadership coup in Australia. Audio

Last week the Green Party co-leader, Russell Norman, got into a scuffle with security guards protecting the visiting Chinese vice-president Xi Jingping. Debate over the fracas dragged on throughout… Audio

The decision to sack General Stanley McChrystal from his command in Afghanistan has been met with support from both sides of US politics. Audio

Andrew Campbell and Matthew Hooton discuss Chris Carter and Len Brown's futures and Russel Norman's Tibet protest. Audio

The National-led Government has reached a deal with the Maori Party to repeal the contentious 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act and replace it with a new law. Audio

The government has had a change of heart over a five million dollar budget allocation to the Pacific Economic Development Agency, saying now that it may be possible for other organisations to apply… Audio