Aucklanders eyeing the Super City mayoral contest are deserting Manukau Mayor Len Brown following his credit card breaches, a survey shows.

Judith Tizard says she bought a $155 bottle of champagne during a dinner with Australian ministers as a matter of national pride.

Georgina te Heuheu must explain why she ignored warnings that a $4.8m budget allocation was given to a risky company, Labour says.

An estimated $12 million will be needed to look after heads of state visiting New Zealand for next year's Rugby World Cup.

When your leader sends you home and tells you to consider your political future, you should assume you probably haven't got one.

Len Brown broke nearly every rule in the book when he put $810 on his council credit card for a dinner at a Manurewa restaurant last September.

Labour's foreign affairs spokesman MP Chris Carter says he accepts leader Phil Goff's decision to demote him for the wrongful use of his ministerial credit cards while in office.

Commentators and bloggers weigh in on where the axe should fall in Labour after last week's credit card revelations.

Shane Jones has no intention of quitting politics right now, but will soon give more serious consideration to his future.

Three Labour MPs have been demoted for misusing taxpayer-funded credit cards while they were ministers in the previous Government.

Phil Goff swiftly punished his wayward MPs and minimised the damage to his party - and to his own position as leader.

As Phil Goff moves to punish colleagues who misused their official credit cards when they were ministers, attention is now turning to bills that are still to be repaid.