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<i>Garth George:</i> MPs milking the system - and it's legal

Bill English to pay back part of allowance

Deputy Prime Minister Bill English has decided to pay back part of his ministerial housing allowance.

Special treatment lets English claim more

The designation of Bill English's family home as an official ministerial residence has allowed him to get more than the $24,000 he would otherwise have been limited to.

<i>Editorial</i>: PM right to act fast on rental perks

<i>Cartoon:</i> Vaulting over the issue

Contractors lose out in funding cuts

Where's the research, asks school head

English gets more than Labour equivalent got - Goff

The "housing-gate" furore just won't go away, despite Bill English suggesting it's time we all moved on from it.

A plague on both their houses

English and Goff are over-cooking their plight and virtue in the ministerial housing row to ridiculous effect, writes Audrey Young.

Tax cut era is over: Govt

<i>Editorial</i>: Extravagant perk has to be reviewed

Special education centre threatened by funding cuts

English defends subsidies

Finance Minister Bill English is defending taxpayers paying more than $900 a week for his $1.2 million family home in Wellington.

<i>Cartoon:</i> Perks of Parliamentary life

<i>Matt McCarten:</i> The biggest bludgers are in our Parliament

<i>Kerre Woodham:</i> Not the 80s now, Roger

Key to unveil youth unemployment policies

Mr Key tells the National Party conference the Government faces difficult economic times and a 'challenge of high and rising youth unemployment'.

English paid $1000 to live in own home

Taxpayers are contributing nearly $1000 a week to allow Bill English to live in his own million-dollar Wellington home.