Labour leader Phil Goff today called for Botany MP' Pansy Wong's breach of international travel rebate rules to be referred to the Auditor-General, after she was cleared of any serious misuse of the perk today.

Botany MP Pansy Wong considered resigning from Parliament after admitting misusing the Parliamentary travel perk during a trip to China with her husband, but says she did not realise she had breached the rules at the time.

A report into Pansy Wong's use of her Parliamentary travel allowance has cleared the Botany MP of serious misuse. Mrs Wong says she will repay the rebate for one trip found to have breached Parliament's rules.

Taxpayers have paid $500m-plus to subsidise big-budget movie makers. Is it money well spent, asks Karyn Scherer.

NZ taxpayers have spent more than half a billion dollars over the past decade subsidising Hollywood.

NZTA cleared its registry of deceased licence holders, only to have 23 inform it they were still alive.

Hillary Clinton is about to meet 61 statesmen, many of whom will be smarting from US remarks revealed by WikiLeaks.

The small Pacific nation of Kiribati spurned a US$3 million offer to take 17 Chinese Muslim Guantanamo Bay detainees.

John Key has slammed bureaucratic pin-pricking over the proposed NZ financial services hub as "absolute rubbish" and stepped in to put the project on the fast-track.

The Labour Party's finance spokesman, David Cunliffe, raised some eyebrows last Thursday