League great Tawera Nikau is after a vacant spot on Waikato-Tainui's tribal governance board.

Three more key members of Sir Owen Glenn's inquiry into child abuse and domestic violence have quit in sympathy with the inquiry's founding director, Ruth Herbert.

Women need to change the conversation from one about rights to one about strategy and economic benefits if they want to improve diversity on boards, according to one top American executive.

Pasifika and Maori players might wear the Silver Fern in healthy numbers but they're not achieving national honours by serving on governing bodies.

Prime Minister John Key this morning released documents detailing Solid Energy's ambitious expansion plans.

Former Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder says the main reason for the company's near failure was "a stunning blow" in the form of "an unprecedented collapse in coal prices".

Prime Minister John Key is facing claims he misled the public after former Solid Energy chairman John Palmer said the company resisted Government pressure to take on more debt - the very thing the Prime Minister said caused the company's problems.

Ex-Solid Energy chairman John Palmer will be grilled on whether pressure from the Government for the company to borrow contributed to its near-collapse last month.

Foreign Affairs chief executive John Allen has defended taking a $40,000 pay rise at a time of job cuts at his ministry, saying he did not believe it was a bad look.

Fees for board chairs have jumped in the past year as workloads increase and finance company prosecutions show the importance of directors "getting it right".

Claire Trevett says God loves a trier, but unfortunately the PM does not feel the same way about his latest trier - Tau Henare.

Civil servants' 'roaming' fees on phones costing public $800,000.