Prime Minister John Key will effectively open Tim Groser’s campaign for the top job in international trade at the forthcoming East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh. “Quite a number of leaders have said to me that ‘Yes, we support Tim’,” Key revealed to this columnist when questioned on Groser’s expected pitch to be the next director-general of the World Trade …

The Public Service Association has leveraged the 100th anniversary of the Public Service Act to whine about the loss of 3000 public sector jobs in the past few years. PSA National Secretary Brenda Pilot says there are still tough times ahead for the sector with a further $1 billion to be cut from departmental budgets newzealandinc.com challenges Ms Pilot to …

Youth organisation Generation Zero is urging Peter Dunne to use his one-vote majority to be a climate hero when the Government’s Bill to amend the Emissions Trading Scheme has its last session of Parliamentary debate this evening. The lobby group claims the “world is watching and they are not impressed”! Generation Zero is calling for him to at least support …