More on Yang Liu
The HoS has more details on Yang Liu: donated $5,000 to Cabinet minister Chris Carter’s Te Atatu electorate donated $5,000 to National Had letters of support from Dover Samuels and Pansy Wong. Wong...
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The Auckland Seats
Starting at the top, the three northern seats of East Coast Bays, North Shore and Northcote were solid blue. Their party votes went up 9%, 4% and 11% respectively. In East Coast Bays almost three...
View ArticleSlam and Dunk
Two hilarious moments in Parliament. First we had Anderton wasting his one question a month, trying to be pious as usual: Hon JIM ANDERTON (Leader—Progressive) to the Prime Minister: How many jobs will...
View ArticleLabour’s smoking gun
Go read the article by Derek Cheng at the Herald, and then tell me if I have it wrong in concluding that Labour’s big issue is that Pansy Wong stated her occupation as “Minister of NZ Govt” rather than...
View ArticleNZPA on Hodgson
NZPA report: A spokeswoman for Mrs Wong told NZPA yesterday the minister had sought Cabinet Office advice and had not done anything wrong. “That advice is that there’s nothing wrong with witnessing a...
View ArticleIs it still a holiday if you do a deal on it?
The Dom Post reports: A National minister used her taxpayer-funded travel perk for a trip to China with her husband where he did a business deal that later turned sour. Ethnic Affairs Minister Pansy...
View ArticlePansy resigns, but will she be prosecuted?
Pansy Wong has resigned as a Cabinet Minister: “It is beyond my wildest dreams that a baby girl born in Shanghai, China, grew up in a Hong Kong apartment where eight families shared a single kitchen...
View ArticleWong’s future
The Herald on Sunday reports: The political future of Pansy Wong was looking dire last night as it emerged that her husband Sammy may have got taxpayer discounts for business travel after booking his...
View ArticleArguably the most hypocritical statement of the decade
Just when I thought their collective amnesia and rewriting of history could not get worse, Phil Goff hits a new record. Here is the NZPA story: Prime Minister John Key should stop protecting former...
View ArticleThe Pansy investigation
Jonathan Marshall reports in the SST: EMBATTLED MP Pansy Wong has been “interrogated” by officials over allegations of travel perk misuse. The National MP and former minister is under investigation by...
View ArticlePansy gone
At a 10.30 am press conference Pansy Wong announced she is resigning effective 17 January 2011. She will not take any pay from 20 December. This means a by-election, probably in late February 2011....
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A valedictory and a maiden
I can’t recall the last time Parliament had a maiden speech and a valedictory speech on the same day. First NZPA report on the valedictory of Pansy Wong: “It was beyond my wildest dreams when, 14 years...
View ArticleSammy Wong
John Hartevelt reports: Claims that the husband of a former Cabinet minister misused thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded international travel are being investigated by the auditor-general....
View ArticleWong wronged
Andrea Vance reports at Stuff: The husband of disgraced former minister Pansy Wong wrongly claimed more than $2000 of taxpayers’ money for private business trips, a watchdog has ruled. A report ordered...
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Jones admits he was not sure of Liu true identity
First an easy rebuttal of Jones claim that he was told Liu would be executed if he went to China. The ODT reported: The department’s case officer, Johannes Gambo, told the court Yan boasted that he had...
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