Pushing Parliamentarian Perks Too Far

Leadership mentor John Peachey (www.thethinkfarm.org) decries MP excesses and a lack of accountability in grey areas of Parliamentary spending, where personal perks are charged as public expense.

This comes after Finance Minister Nicola Willis criticised NZ First Deputy Shane Jones for a $30,000 budget blowout during his work trip to Canada, an overspend which was defended by Rt Hon. Winston Peters and later pardoned by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon as an 'administrative error'. 

John Peachey and Andrew Urquhart ask, where's the hard line when the bottom line doesn't balance out? Are we paying our country's leaders too much; and should the 'perks of the job' carry on indefinitely after they've left the role?

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