Overseas voting has started, and this year expatriates can vote over the internet instead of having to find a New Zealand embassy or consulate.

Labour Party deputy leader and Te Arawhiti Minister Kelvin Davis says the Treaty of Waitangi is on the ballot paper.

This year's winner of the Women In Film & Television Mana Wahine Award says Māori filmmakers should always dream big.

Labour's Māori electorate campaign co-ordinator Willie Jackson says the left bloc needs to lift its vote another three of four points to have a chance of forming the next Government.

The Green Party wants to double the Best Start payment and make it available for every child under three.

The country's two medical schools are stepping up the number of trainee doctors working in rural communities.