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Wednesday's headlines: Slump in support for Labour in latest political opinion poll; flu vaccinations urged by Employers Association in Waikato; man fined $1100 for being intoxicated and for using his…

By a margin of 5-4, the United States Supreme Court has struck down part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which was designed to protect minority voters. A new formula will have to be agreed by Congress.

MPs have been asked to investigate the way Te Wananga o Aotearoa got rid of its chief executive, Bentham Ohia.

Samoa's Parliament has decided to unanimously endorse an amendment to the constitution which will allow five parliamentary seats to be allotted to women candidates. The amendment was discussed in…

A new poll in Australia says federal Labor could lose 35 of its 71 seats at the forthcoming federal election in September, including nine held by ministers.

A group which pushed for seats for women in the Samoa parliament says while it welcomes yesterday's constitutional change, it had been hoping the government would take a different approach.

Support for the National Party has risen in the latest Roy Morgan poll, while support for the Labour and Green parties has fallen.

A recent poll reveals it takes military heroics or an All Blacks jersey to be considered among the most trustworthy people in New Zealand. Audio

Speculation over who will lead Labor to the federal election in Australia on 14 September is expected to continue on Wednesday.

Former Queensland Labor premier Peter Beattie says it is time that former prime minister Bob Hawke was called in to sort out the Australian Labor Party's federal leadership saga.

A court in Greece has suspended a government order to close the state radio and television network, ERT, until a new organisation is set up.

The head of the United Nations Development Programme in the region, Knut Ostby, says the agency welcomes the chance to give input on Fiji's elections. The UN agency was among...

A Nielsen poll in Australia shows Labor's primary support falling to 29 points while the Coalition is up three points at 47.

Iranian voters have turned out in large numbers to choose a new president, with long queues outside polling stations.

A presidential candidate for the Kutubu local level government in Papua new Guinea's Southern Highlands, has called for a freeze on all financial actions by all assemblies during the polling...

The Maori Party MP, Te Ururoa Flavell, has entered a private member's bill into the ballot to automatically register Maori on the Maori roll.

The battle for the Auckland mayoralty this year is likely to be another big-spending affair, following the failure of a move to reduce the cap on campaign spending.

The only reformist candidate in Friday's presidential election in Iran, Mohammad Reza Aref, has withdrawn from the poll.

The lower house of parliament in Russia, the Duma, has passed a law imposing heavy fines for providing information about homosexuality to people under 18.