Metiria Turei will not seek ministerial position

At a noon press conference Metiria Turei announced that she is not resigning and will continue to lead the Greens, but she is not seeking a ministerial position in a new government. She takes responsibility for her past, but the work on a fair welfare system is more important than any one person.

RNZ on suppressed child abuse report

RNZ this morning describes a 2011 report by the Chief Human Rights Commissioner on historical child abuse in NZ. “It was never published because, she says, the Attorney General Chris Finlayson did not like its recommendations.”

John Key on honesty

At the height of the Peters affair when John Key was trying to make political capital out of the PM’s statement that she […]