John McLean: Legal Elite Is Winning In The War For Constitutional Supremacy

Craig Stobo has been forced to resign as chair of the board of New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority.

On 4 May 2026, National Party MP and Commerce & Consumer Affairs Minister, Cameron Brewer, accepted Stobo’s offer to resign. Brewer’s acceptance was of course code for, “If he’d refused to resign, I’d’ve booted him”.

Michael Reddell: Not much parliamentary scrutiny

This was the post I was planning to write this morning to mark Orr’s final day. That said, if the underlying events – deliberate attempts to mislead Parliament – were Orr’s doing, the post is more about the apparent uselessness of Parliament (specifically the Finance and Expenditure Committee) in holding him and the rest of the Bank (other MPC members, Board) to account. This is just one small example.

Karl du Fresne: Memo to RNZ: the country has moved on

I wonder, does RNZ realise that the government changed five weeks ago? Its editorial judgment suggests not.

The story that led its bulletins this morning – in other words, the news item that RNZ’s editors considered the most significant of the day – revealed that new National Party MP Cameron Brewer had made an election night speech in which he celebrated the return of the “stale, pale male”. Someone had recorded the speech and leaked it.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 21/11/23

You can get away with being the first white bloke to win an electorate – but don’t try making a joke about it

No news to pass on from the Beehive website today, sorry. But we have noted how quickly political reporters can swarm – and inflict their sting – after one of them was alerted to something a newly elected MP had said on Election Day.

The result has been a spate of reports which have taken at least some of the media’s focus away from the coalition negotiations and on to happenings in the Upper Harbour Electorate several weeks ago.