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Entertaining Rugby World Cup VIPS will cost $12 million
An estimated $12 million will be needed to look after heads of state visiting New Zealand for next year's Rugby World Cup.
An estimated $12 million will be needed to look after heads of state visiting New Zealand for next year's Rugby World Cup.
When your leader sends you home and tells you to consider your political future, you should assume you probably haven't got one.
Labour MP Chris Carter apologises for his credit card and travel spending.
Nanaia Mahuta and Charles Chauvel are among the biggest winners out of a Labour Party reshuffle.
Len Brown broke nearly every rule in the book when he put $810 on his council credit card for a dinner at a Manurewa restaurant last September.
Commentators and bloggers weigh in on where the axe should fall in Labour after last week's credit card revelations.
Shane Jones has no intention of quitting politics right now, but will soon give more serious consideration to his future.
Three Labour MPs have been demoted for misusing taxpayer-funded credit cards while they were ministers in the previous Government.
Phil Goff swiftly punished his wayward MPs and minimised the damage to his party - and to his own position as leader.
As Phil Goff moves to punish colleagues who misused their official credit cards when they were ministers, attention is now turning to bills that are still to be repaid.
Chris Carter is close to quitting Parliament because he is sick of being attacked as a "luxury-loving gay boy".
Hundreds of nzherald.co.nz readers responded to revelations of ministers misusing their credit cards. Read some of the best comments.
Politicians can apologise and keep their jobs but over in the private sector misusing a company credit card can result in the sack, experts and employers say.
Former minister Chris Carter offers explanations for his ministerial credit card spending "slip ups" and defends the cards' continued use.
Labour MP Shane Jones began yesterday bluffing away a dirty secret he has carried for two years, but by day's end, after admitting it, even he was questioning his political future.