By Maggie Tait of NZPA Wellington, Jan 28 NZPA - Green Party founder and former co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has been packing boxes for weeks before announcing her resignation today.

Over the weekend few people may have noticed that the Progressive Party released a statement stating that it would not contest any future elections.

Wellington, July 24 NZPA - The Progressive Party is effectively standing aside at the next election and its members have been told they are free to join Labour if they want to.

Laila Harre's recent appointment as the new 'Human Resources and Change Manager' for the Auckland Transitional Authority (ATA) has raised eyebrows across the left in both Auckland and throughout New Zealand, given her current role as National Distribution Union (NDU) General Secretary and former All

Parliament's finance and expenditure select committee yesterday released a report accusing the banking sector of gouging at the expense of ordinary customers like you and me at a time of global recession.

Dear Metiria,

No doubt you would have my congratulatory message on your Facebook wall this past weekend. Again, well done and you are the first person from my own generation (the 70's generation) to lead a parliamentary political party in this country.

This coming week will feature a number of pertinent twenty year anniversaries that fell around Queen's Birthday weekend 1989. One was the tragic Tianamen Square massacre in Beijing where the increasingly right-wing rulers of so-called 'Communist' China sent the tanks out to quell popular protest.

Wellington, March 24 NZPA - Scrapping TVNZ's charter spells doom for public broadcasting and will relegate the network to idiot box status, critics of the Government's decision say.

Prime Minister John Key's call for those fortunate enough to receive tax cuts after April 1st to consider donating them to charity is just another sign that the National Government is steering this country back to the 19th Century.

Winston Peters will be hoping after New Zealand First's devastating electoral loss in November that he can repeat the feat of his Christian namesake and make a come back worthy of Lazarus.