Kate Hawkesby: I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this point for the Labour Party

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this point for the Labour Party and Chris Hipkins. I mean the state of it.

It really is from the sublime to the ridiculous. Who's left?

Who around that Cabinet table is capable enough to seriously manage all the portfolios of the other ministers who are dropping like flies? It’s a shambles.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: The case of Michael Wood will go down as a perplexing political stuff-up

The case of Michael Wood, I think, has got to go down in history as one of the most confusing political stuff-ups ever, don’t you think?

Because no-one can explain why. Why did Michael Wood fail time after time just to own up to the fact that he held shares that the rules clearly said he needed to declare? He should have declared them all when he filled out the register at Parliament of what each MP owns.

He filled that out once a year, for seven years and he said nothing. He should have declared them all when the Cabinet Office was chasing him about the airport shares- twelve times.

Barry Soper: Michael Wood's behaviour went from unacceptable to plain dishonest

Sacked Labour Cabinet Minister Michael Wood is either so stinking rich that he doesn't know which trust he's stashed his cash in, or he's just plain dishonest.

The latter's much more likely when it came to his embarrassing performance over his Auckland Airport shares.   

On no fewer than a dozen times, he was asked by the powerful Cabinet office whether he had dispensed with his shareholding.

Bryce Edwards: Does Michael Wood have enough integrity to be a Minister?

New Zealanders are supposed to be able to trust that there are adequate systems in place to ensure our politicians aren’t corrupt. There are mandatory systems of transparency requiring MPs and ministers to disclose all possible conflicts of interest, and yet we have learnt that this integrity system has fallen over once again. This time Labour Cabinet Minister Michael Wood has been caught out for not complying with the Cabinet and Parliamentary rules in properly disclosing his ownership of shares in Auckland International Airport.

Wood has been stood down from his Transport role temporarily as a result. But it’s not yet clear that Wood should be reinstated as Transport Minister, or indeed whether he can reasonably continue as a minister at all. His numerous transgressions paint a picture of a politician lacking in the necessary integrity – or perhaps even competency – that New Zealanders expect of politicians.