money Archive

  • Metiria Turei

    John Key chooses weak option for expenses - by Metiria Turei



    John Key has apparently written to the Speaker asking that the international travel perk be scrapped. That is all well and fine until the next problem arises with some other part of the expenses and allowances system. The Greens have lead this issue from the start, with other MPs only coming to the party when [...] read more
    November 15, 2010 5:34 pm - 10 Comments
  • Keith Locke

    OAG’s report on defence fraud - by Keith Locke



    The Auditor-General has come out with a very disturbing report on the NZ Defence Forces defrauding the United Nations over accommodation payments for NZDF seconded to the UN in New York. This fraud took place over seven years, from 2001 to 2008, with “a large number of NZDF employees” [Report, page 65] aware of the [...] read more
    July 22, 2010 2:24 pm - 1 Comment
  • frog

    Clever Kiwi gives Key a serve - by frog



    I laughed out loud while reading The Guardian Weekly today. In the Diversion section, readers are asked to send in answers to questions posed the previous week. The question? If matter can neither be destroyed nor created, then how can money? Among the very witty replies was this one from kiwi David Sinclair of Warkworth: [...] read more
    November 23, 2008 5:14 pm - 62 Comments
  • frog

    Transparency should be king - by frog



    Once again, our papers are filled with speculations and allegations about who gave money to whom and when, as well as to what end. The self-declared King of Transparency has lost his crown. This is precisely the reason that the EFA was needed. We can debate all day about the efficacy (or not) of that [...] read more
    July 27, 2008 2:05 pm - 30 Comments