Hundreds demonstrate against government RNZ funding freeze.

Tiny increase to wages is no comfort in tough times.

Hunters set to influence pest management under Dunne plan.

Our students recount election night reporting experiences.

How will Helen Clark be remembered? How is New Zealand different in 2008, after nine years of Labour-led governments, to the country she inherited in 1999? SANDRA DICKSON reviews the Clark years.

Out-going PM Helen Clark was an ardent supporter of the arts. REESH LYON looks at what her relegation to the Opposition might mean for arts and culture.

Labour supporters lose their party mood in a hurry.

Peter Dunne has done it again, winning the Ohariu electorate.

NewsWire reporter gets call about her vote – on election day!

Early voting heavy, say informal reports from polling booths.

Most media – from the humble sticker to the daily newspaper – are restricted on what they can publish or broadcast on Election Day, reports LUKE APPLEBY.

THE GREENS will poll highest in tomorrow’s election, if a surprise NewsWire snap text poll of mostly young people is to be believed, reports JENNY MEYER.

NZ First candidate will need undecided voters to win.

We look behind the policy hype to find the real people.

Fringe parties claim their ideas adopted by bigger cousins.

NewsWire reporter HINANO ANDREWS – Pacific Island NZer – talks to a young Samoan man about his aspirations for PI people.

Mana candidates will celebrate whatever electorate decides.

Sickness and exhaustion cut Maori MP numbers.

Ron Mark says Labour has neglected Rimutaka electorate.

The election is a good reason for a shindig, says Vote Party.

Labour & National campaign hard in NZ’s most marginal seat.

Wellington High School’s voters all for Labour and the Greens.

POLITICAL billboards will not be visible on Election Day – but an exception is the Pimp Your Political Billboard competition being run by foghorn.co.nz.

Cuba Mall characters mostly going Green, our poll finds.

Weather on Election day could influence voter behaviour.

Bradford: Still worth it to get railways back into public control.

Four years after forming, the Maori Party could decide how our next government is formed. HINANO ANDREWS looks at its history.

Conflicting views about its future management worry voters.

Kiwi Party’s Gordon Copeland says there’s no problem.

KRISTINA KEOGH gets her first vote this election, so went to her first candidates meeting. It was boring, she writes, but it did confirm her voting choice.

SARAH CODDINGTON looks at party policy behind Labour’s climate change initiative.

Commentators are already calling Labour’s student allowance announcement the bribe that could swing the election.

JESSICA DIXON surveyed Wellington students and parents – and found it’s worked for them.

When candidates clashed at Aro Valley’s notorious meet-the-candidates meeting, SOPHIE SCARF got the highlights for her video news coverage.

Labour needed every vote it could cobble together to get the emissions trading scheme into law. LAURA FRYKBERG and JENNY MEYER look at the minor parties’ role.

What kind of attention did the ETS get from media in the immediate lead-up to last month’s legislation? NewsWire reporters look at coverage in the week preceding the Act.

Election polls hold a lot of sway with voters, but are they giving an accurate picture? NewsWire polled nearly 600 Wellingtonians and many are still undecided about their party vote.