Phil Goff has released details of his MPs' expenses from July to September, ignoring Lockwood Smith's decision to withhold the information.

John Key and Phil Goff say they want their caucuses to release details of members' use of the MPs' international travel perk.

Rodney Hide - the minister who was busted for taking his girlfriend on a $22,000 trip to Hawaii and Europe - has called for openness about public spending.

Is New Zealand going the right way about winning medals or are we slipping further behind Australia?

Film studios are more likely to make big-budget movies in NZ because they will benefit from broader tax rebate rules, the Govt says.

No one will remember any prime ministerial egg-on-face when the Hobbit omelette is finally cooked.

A $1.3 billion offer for South Canterbury Finance appears to have been rejected after Treasury received advice that the deal was not necessarily the best one it could get.

South Canterbury Finance chief executive Sandy Maier became a director of Ngai Tahu Holdings the day after Allan Hubbard's finance company was placed in receivership.

The Govt's financial statements show the deficit shrank as bigger returns from the ACC and the Cullen Fund kicked in.