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After a month of controversies involving threats to sue the prime minister, a scathing report into the 111 call system and revelations that former Iraqi officials are living in New Zealand, Labour has emerged largely untouched in the polls.
The latest One News Colmar Brunton survey of 1000 eligible voters shows these issues have failed to dent Labour's popularity. And doubts about a shaky economic future seem to have dropped off.
As Helen Clark attended commemorations at Gallipoli, events back in New Zealand looked likely to spoil the party.
Police admissions about dodgy email porn as an independent inquiry was set to savage them over the 111 debacle.
Former police commissioner Peter Doone was threatening to sue Clark and Dover Samuel's admitting he was caught short in a hotel corridor.
Then, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters' bombshell that former Saddam Hussein officials have made New Zealand their home. And to cap it off, a foot and mouth scare on Waiheke Island. So what did all that and more do to the poll ratings?
Labour drops 1 point this poll to 44%, National sheds 1 to 37%. New Zealand First is up 1 to 8%.
The Green Party is steady on 4%, Act down 1 to 2%, the Maori Party up 1 to 2% and United Future steady on 1%.
The stories may have made the headlines, but they haven't moved the voters. National Party leader Don Brash has been trying to take it to Clark in the house. But the battle at parliament has seen one clear winner - Winston Peters.
In the preferred prime minister stakes, Clark is up 1 point this poll to 41% and Brash drops 5 to 15%. But Peters scored highly with his Iraqi revelations up 3 to 13%. John Tamihere's brief brush in the big league falls away this month he's down 2 to 1%.
And while this past week has seen the country gripped by a foot and mouth scare and Auckland dealing with a six-day strike by Stagecoach bus drivers, the economic outlook will bring those smiles back
Approval for how the government is performing is down 2 to 47% and disapproval down 1 to 33%.
But the figure Labour is most concerned about is economic confidence. After turning a bit sour in the last two months, optimism is steady on 26% and those pessimistic about the economy have dropped 4 points to 39%.
These sort
of figures could dampen rumours about an early election.
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