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Labour will not stop its attacks on Deputy Prime Minister Bill English over his housing allowance despite the watchdog of public spending clearing him of wrongdoing yesterday. Labour seized on a finding in the Auditor-General's report that Mr English...
Tags: housing allowances, finance minister, Wellington, Bill English
Finance Minister Bill English looked so much like a party political broadcast she thought the rules had changed. Massey University political marketing specialist Claire Robinson also said the ads were worth a fortune – hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Tags: Bill English, finance minister, Newstalk ZB, auditor general, TVNZ, Auditor-General, correctly completed, Mr English, housing allowances, wellington accommodation
Green Party Co-Leader Look we can't take one poll as meaning anything under these circumstances and we never have, the Greens have always wavered in the polls particularly between elections. We're not taking this as any serious indication of our public...
Tags: Metiria Turei, housing allowances, green parties, leader metiria
Deputy Prime Minister Bill English has announced he will not receive any more taxpayer-funding housing allowances. The finance minister this afternoon confirmed actions he had taken with the aim of putting the "unnecessary distraction" of the row over...
Tags: housing allowances, prime minister, finance minister, paid backs, ministerial housing, Labour Party, Wellington, english gives, Newstalk ZB, deputy prime, New Zealand
Ministers who continue to stay in the same house they lived in before taking office will have their allowances capped at $30,000. The change is among several Prime Minister John Key announced today following a review of the ministerial housing system...
Tags: prime minister, Vietnamese Communist Party, John Key, ministerial housing, minister john, NZPA, housing allowances, clinical psychologist, Nigel Latta, Mr Key
Speaker defends MPs’ private international travel perks: “They deserve it”; says MPs expenses are “sound” - Details of private international travel won’t be made public; Party whips “should be answerable” for that - “Parliament chews up, destroys and...
Tags: defends mp, Lockwood Smith, Parliament, housing allowances
Deputy Prime Minister Bill English says he is going to pay back all of the housing allowance he has received above that of an ordinary MP. Mr English said no amount of detail about how he received almost $1000 a week in expenses, including $700 in rent,...
Tags: housing allowances, prime minister, pay backs, Wellington, english says, finance minister, deputy prime, accommodation allowances, Newstalk ZB
Hacked In Parallel Universe New Zealand scientists announced today that they have made observations of life in a strange parallel universe. Dubbed "World X", they describe it as like our own, from identical rules of physics to a planet with individuals...
Tags: New Zealand Defence Force, double dipped, NZPA, Selwyn Heaton, colonel selwyn, force staff, housing allowances, court martial