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Labour could form a government with the support of the Greens and Te Pāti Māori, according to the latest 1News Kantar Public Poll.

Labour has overtaken National in the latest Taxpayers Union-Curia poll but would be unable to form a government on the numbers.

In the wake of the Rob Campbell saga, Sir Ashley Bloomfield talks to The Detail about why political neutrality in the public service is so important. 

The Act Party has announced a bundle of policies it says will help flood-affected regions bounce back faster.

The ejection of Health New Zealand's chair is becoming a larger headache for the government as it faces calls to punish him further, as well as claims it has overreacted.

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has declined to express confidence in the chair of Te Whatu Ora/Health NZ Rob Campbell after he made "inappropriate" political comments online.

The chair of Te Whatu Ora/Health NZ and the Environmental Protection Authority says his criticism of National's three waters policy announcement was made "as a private citizen".

Tax, borrow or cut: those are the broad options facing Grant Robertson as he faces the multibillion-dollar bill for Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland floods.

Leaders of all political parties have focused opening statements in Parliament on the storms and rebuild, with a side-order of climate change.

Today the debating chamber launched into action as it does most years - but this year was all about the weather and the climate.

Analysis - The way Chris Hipkins deals with the cyclone recovery will define his leadership the way the pandemic defined Jacinda Ardrern's, and will certainly have an impact on the October election.

Newsroom's political editor Jo Moir and RNZ's deputy political editor Craig McCulloch join The Detail to size up the minor parties as election year gets underway.

ACT is criticising the government over its approach to Cyclone Gabrielle and has opposed the adjournment of Parliament, saying Labour "loves disaster politics".

National and Labour are neck-and-neck in the latest poll from The Taxpayers Union/Curia, but National and ACT would still be able to form a government on its numbers.

In this week's Focus on Politics, RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson parses the co-governance rhetoric of the past few weeks.

At least nine homes in the Auckland suburb of Epsom have been broken into after being damaged by floodwaters.

ACT leader David Seymour has delivered a speech painting National and Labour as two sides of the same coin, and calling co-governance a "culture war".