1National MP Lockwood Smith has been forced to apologise for comments he made about Pacific workers in realtion to fruit picking.
2The Maori Party has unveiled a policy that would make it compulsory for all immigrants to take a course in NZ history and the Treaty of Waitangi.
3Advance votes have already been cast in the NZ general election for those who will be unable to make it to a polling booth on election day.
4Other news.
5Barack Obama is taking a break from his Presidential campaign to visit his grandmother in Hawaii, who is gravely ill.
6A top Indonesian court has rejected the request of three men convicted of the Bali bombings to be killed by a traditional Islamic beheading rather than by firing squad.
7Other news.