Wellington, March 12 NZPA - The success of the SuperGold card scheme's transport discount should not be a reason to downgrade it, says senior citizens lobby group Grey Power.

Wellington, March 12 NZPA - A review of transport discounts for the elderly using the SuperGold card is shaping up to be an excuse to make cuts, Labour's transport spokesman Darren Hughes said yesterday.

By Maggie Tait of NZPA Wellington, March 11 NZPA - Free off-peak travel for elderly people under the SuperGold card is set to exceed its annual $18 million budget and the Government is looking at ways of reining it in, which may impact on services.

It was all so depressingly familiar. Winston Peters tells New Zealand First members it is time for "a new beginning" and urges them to start preparing for the 2011 general election.

Wellington, July 16 NZPA - New Zealand First leader Winston Peters needs to start being a team player and stop doing what he wants when he wants, one of the party's former MPs, Peter Brown, says.

Wellington, March 9 NZPA - A row over whether a Department of Internal Affairs staffer misled the media has reached Prime Minister John Key, who says he expects the department's chief executive to sort it out.

New Zealand First's chances of getting back into Parliament are just about zero. Perhaps some really exceptional circumstances might make it possible at the next election or the one after that, but the reality is that when parties are booted out, they stay out.

Wellington, Feb 16 NZPA - The chances of New Zealand First getting back into Parliament are slim -- with or without Winston Peters, says Prime Minister John Key.

Wellington, Feb 15 NZPA - New Zealand First doesn't appear to have settled any of the questions about its future during a meeting of about 100 party members in Auckland on Saturday.

Wellington, Feb 14 NZPA - New Zealand First deputy leader Peter Brown quit his post at a conference in Auckland today. He resigned at the conference, called to discuss the party's future after its disappointing election campaign last year.