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Support for National has edged back up in the latest Roy Morgan poll while both the Labour and Green have slipped. In an average of polls, National is on 50 percent support.

Campaigners say climate change is this generation's nuclear-free movement – a chance to define New Zealand’s place in the world.

The chief election officer in American Samoa says more money is needed to finance this year's general election.

Samoa's senior woman MP and Minister of Justice, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, has called for women in Samoa to get more involved in village affairs before the 2016 general election.

An economist says the latest Reserve Bank survey of inflation expectations will lessen the need for further interest rate increases.

Fiji's United Freedom party leader says he has been rejected as a candidate for the elections because of a seven year old parking offence.

A leading Fiji trades unionist and two party leaders have been rejected as election candidates.

Economic questions remain crucial to NZ households, and the parties are competing to convince voters they have the answers. It's one of the election's Big Issues.

Election 2014 - National's polling average was steady up to early August in the poll-of-polls at 50.2% while Labour's average dropped to 26.4%. Two new polls were released on Sunday.

The Conservative Party is challenging the amount of broadcasting time and public money allocated to it through the Electoral Commission in the upcoming election.

The President of Nadi's Chamber of Commerce, Ram Raju, says businesses in Fiji's tourism capital are looking forward to a kickstart after the elections.

A television poll putting Internet-Mana on four percent support shows the campaign is gaining momentum, the alliance says, though another survey had its support at half that.

The leader of Australia's team of Fiji election observers, Peter Reith, says it is a positive step that Fiji can go to the polls for the first time since 2006.

Support for the National Party has fallen in two television polls out tonight but it's still at or close to 50 percent. National got 50 percent in one poll and 47.5 percent in another.

A preliminary count in Samoa's Gagaifomauga by-election has the only woman candidate, Faimalotoa Kika Iemaima Stowers, topping the polls with 268 votes.

Clashes broke out on Friday as thousands of protesters from two anti-government movements converged on Pakistan's capital where gunshots hit Imran Khan's vehicle.

Election 2014 - A new Fairfax Media-Ipsos poll again has Labour at a basement rating of 22.5% and National cruising at 55.1% - but the poll-of-polls scarcely budged.

Labour leader David Cunliffe says he's not putting any weight a new political poll showing his party losing support at 22.5 percent. National is unchanged on 55 percent.

Labour support drops in new poll, undecideds more than 15%

You know the election is not far away when political parties start ramping up the rhetoric on race relations. The race debate has flared on two different fronts this week.

Five candidates will be contesting tomorrow's by-election for Samoa's Gagaifomauga number one territorial constituency.

Australia says a former Liberal cabinet minister, Peter Reith, will lead its contingent to Fiji to monitor next month's election.