No Right Turn

Back in 2007, in the wake of an Auditor-General's report which totally overturned the status quo on the use of Parliamentary funding, t...

It turns out that Owen Glenn did give Winston Peters $100,000 - and that Winston "didn't know about it". The money was used...

Last week, the government introduced a bill into Parliament - the Appropriation (Continuation of Interim Meaning of Funding for Parliamentar...

Saturday's Dominion Post reported that the National Party had spent $90,000 of its Parliamentary budget on a database system allowing t...

The Exclusive Brethren Church has denied it had any involvement in the 2005 election [audio], saying that "there was certainly no chur...

According to the Herald , Labour will reconsider repaying the $800,000 for its election pledge cards if New Zealand First succeeds in a lega...

Two months ago, the rabid right were crying "corruption!" over the government's retrospective validation of Parliamentary Serv...

In Chapter 14 of The Hollow Men , Nicky Hager notes that the 1986 Royal Commission on the Electoral System argued strongly for full transpa...

News from The Hollow Men continues to trickle out, with the Dominion-Post have a good series on some of the key allegations yesterday, and...

Every time we talk about ending the practice of large anonymous donations to political parties , some right-wing shill pops up and says tha...

Now that the injunction has been lifted, journalists are frantically speed-reading their hastily acquired copies of The Hollow Men to uncov...

The National Party claims to have found a way around its impasse over their conveniently "forgotten" GST : purchasing advertising ...

Today, a copy of Gordon Copeland's newsletter, "Copeland's Chronicle", landed in my mailbox. It's a special edition, ...

Question Time today opened with Don Brash asking Michael Cullen (as Acting Prime Minister) When will the Appropriation (Parliamentary Expe...

For the past year, Don Brash has been accusing the government of "corruption" for paying for its election pledge cards from its Pa...

So, how are the parties hit with large bills by the Auditor-General's retrospective and arbitrary reinterpretation of the rules going to...

The Auditor-General's report on Parliamentary Services advertising expenditure and the Speaker's reply to it are now available fro...

National is accusing Labour of leaking the Auditor-General's report into the misuse of Parliamentary Services spending [audio] in order...

Don Brash has written to the Commissioner of Police complaining about their failure to prosecute Labour for their egregious overspending d...

A wealthy foreign Labour Party backer reportedly offered the Maori party $250,000 if they would support Labour . And there's no question...