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PM says Act bust-up won't affect Govt
Prime Minister John Key says he doesn't know why Act deputy leader Heather Roy was rolled but says it won't destabilise the Act and National support arrangement.
Prime Minister John Key says he doesn't know why Act deputy leader Heather Roy was rolled but says it won't destabilise the Act and National support arrangement.
Not a skerrick of the notion of accountability - on which Act bases its sales pitch - was apparent this afternoon, writes John Armstrong.
The Act Party has dumped Heather Roy as its deputy leader and voted first-term MP John Boscawen to the position.
A caucus meeting where minister Heather Roy is expected to be dumped by her parliamentary colleagues as deputy leader of Act is under way.
A two-week trip to Europe by former Defence and Tourism Minister Mark Burton and his wife included a hotel bill of $15,203.46.
Banks' strategists are going to have a hard time getting media to believe their political spin from now on.
The Australian govt is shelving plans to start its ETS for at least three years, but the NZ Government says it has no plans to delay the scheme here.
Rodney Hide's wife of 23 years says divorce papers filed by the Act leader came "out of the blue".
Taxpayers are increasingly covering the legal costs when MPs are sued - but MPs can keep the use of public money for their defence secret.