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New Zealand First Deputy Leader Shane Jones says it's a sad outcome for Stuart Nash to give up his candidacy.
Nash has resigned - after outcry over revelations he'd called his Napier opponent MP Katie Nimon lazy, for taking leave after having a baby.
Leader Winston Peters announced the party has accepted Nash's offer to quit.
Jones says Nash did an honourable thing - to avoid distracting from the election.
"But look, it's not the end of the life for Stuey, he's got a lot more to offer in a variety of other contexts."
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New Zealand First has swiftly picked a new candidate for Napier after the resignation of Stuart Nash.
Te Kira Lawrence, who was previously announced as the Party's East Cape candidate, will now stand in Nash's place.
Stuart Nash resigned from New Zealand First last night, after a text was revealed where he called Napier MP Katie Nimon the laziest MP he'd ever come across, for taking leave after having a baby.
Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper says politics is a 'rough-and-tumble' game, but it's surprising National stepped in over this matter.
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Australia's unemployment rate stayed at 4.4 percent in June, according to the latest Labour Force data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The rise in employment was driven by a 47,000-person rise in part-time work, pushing it to more than 4.6 million people, with full-time employment also rising up by 29,300 to over 10 million people.
Australian correspondent Murray Olds says the Reserve Bank is looking for unemployment figures to go higher in order to cool the economy down.
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Former Silver Fern and MP Louisa Wall is unimpressed Netball New Zealand is cutting jobs at ANZ Premiership franchises, while the national side prepares for the Commonwealth Games.
Wall says new chair Alastair Carruthers should be working on the sport's domestic concerns rather than travelling to Glasgow.
Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explained further.
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A step towards giving volunteer firefighters the same ACC protection as fulltimers.
Labour MP Kieran McAnulty's Accident Compensation Amendment Bill has been drawn from Parliament's biscuit tin today.
The legislation would extend cover for work-related injuries and illnesses to volunteers.
United Fire Brigades Association CEO Bill Butzbach says it's important for it to pass.
"If we can't keep supporting our volunteers that we rely so much upon - if they stop volunteering, we're going to be in a bunch of trouble. I think they need to feel well-supported in the very important role they carry out."
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