Three more key members of Sir Owen Glenn's inquiry into child abuse and domestic violence have quit in sympathy with the inquiry's founding director, Ruth Herbert.

Women need to change the conversation from one about rights to one about strategy and economic benefits if they want to improve diversity on boards, according to one top American executive.

Top United States business school Harvard is using two Kiwi companies to help teach its MBA students about getting the right mix of people on boards.

Ex-MP Vui Mark Gosche says more Maori and Pacific representation on governing bodies for sports such as league is a slow-moving inevitability.

Prime Minister John Key is facing claims he misled the public after former Solid Energy chairman John Palmer said the company resisted Government pressure to take on more debt - the very thing the Prime Minister said caused the company's problems.

Former Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder says the main reason for the company's near failure was "a stunning blow" in the form of "an unprecedented collapse in coal prices".

Ex-Solid Energy chairman John Palmer will be grilled on whether pressure from the Government for the company to borrow contributed to its near-collapse last month.

Foreign Affairs chief executive John Allen has defended taking a $40,000 pay rise at a time of job cuts at his ministry, saying he did not believe it was a bad look.

Australia is always being held up as an example for New Zealand to follow. But who could admire the toxic way they do politics in Australia, writes Sue Kedgley.

Claire Trevett says God loves a trier, but unfortunately the PM does not feel the same way about his latest trier - Tau Henare.

Civil servants' 'roaming' fees on phones costing public $800,000.