Talk:List of political scandals in New Zealand

Still to add
There are several important items which still need to be added here - most importantly the Winebox Inquiry, but also Kim Dotcom, Novopay, and the Rickards/Nicholas case - but at least this is a start. There's also a lot of references to be done - the linked articles will easily provide some of them. Grutness...wha?  11:19, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

External links to lists of NZ scandals - many probably worth adding

 * A Brief History Of Political Scandal In New Zealand - From Colin Moyle To Darren Hughes - a blog, but the items mentioned are scandals nonetheless
 * David Farrar: Parliamentary resignations, Herald article on the history of resigning MPs
 * Parliamentary scandals, again a blog, and a bald list (more in the comments section underneath), but many of those listed are worth adding here

Grutness...wha?  00:51, 9 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Maybe the first political scandal? James Stuart-Wortley stood in the 1853 election. He was upper class and financially loaded, but pretty young. At the time, the active and passive voting age was set at 21, and somebody challenged him to be underage. Stuart-Wortley got his lawyers in who all confirmed that it was all legal. Turns out that the concerns were correct, and he was 20 when he got elected to the House of Representatives. I once read up on it in contemporary newspaper articles, but this is not even noted in his article.  Schwede 66  07:15, 9 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Didn't know about that one. Most of the online information is about recent scandals - it would be good to have some early ones on the list too. It's possible AK Grant's The Unauthorised Version: A Cartoon History of New Zealand will have something about it. Grutness...wha?  11:17, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ISTR there were also some early scandals relating to land purchases that helped to fuel the New Zealand wars, but don't know any details. Grutness...wha?  11:20, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

BLP
The WP:BLP implications of this article as it currently stands are pretty problematic: allegations, etc, about living people are listed (sometimes in a fairly tabloid style) without noting what their responses were, or the end results. Nick-D (talk) 11:47, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

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Additional scandals
Why has the investigation into the Labour party by the SFO not been included? And the scandal relating to Speaker Trevor Mallard making a false rape claim, and using taxpayer funds for his defence.

I can cite the below sources.

Labour SFO https://sfo.govt.nz/media-cases/media-releases/sfo-files-charges-in-labour-party-donations-case/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/serious-fraud-office-charges-six-people-in-labour-party-donations-case/O7VHPWAS3XIKFM65NUUXOIOONI/

Trevor Mallard Scandal https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/trevor-mallard-defamation-case-settling-speakers-false-rape-claim-against-staffer-costs-taxpayers-333000-national/P2J7YX4WTQM3EZWLBCPAWPZGFM/

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/national-renews-calls-for-speaker-trevor-mallard-s-resignation-amid-new-revelations-over-rape-comments.amp.html

Thanks, 114.23.214.107 (talk) 20:15, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Feel free to add it. It’s questionable whether the taxpayer paying for a legal bill being part of a scandal, though, as that’s common practice.  Schwede 66  17:56, 20 September 2021 (UTC)