Prime Minister John Key says there are no plans to sell KiwiRail.

Labour say the Maori Party is struggling to deliver for Maori as a small party in a support arrangement with the Government. 

The decision to acquit the Waihopai saboteurs surprised Prime Minister John Key and he is not ruling out a law change. 

A long-awaited discussion document about opening up conservation land to mining was likely to be released today, Prime Minister John Key said. 

Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples says the Maori Party's support arrangement with the government is "very difficult and stressful" at times.

Court action against Japan over whaling could fail and put anti-whaling countries in a worse position, New Zealand's representative to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) says.