Nick Smith
Relief and celebration after two-year battle
With the odds overcome, Manapouri's Ruth Shaw was overjoyed at yesterday's Government decision to refuse the Fiordland monorail.
Criticism surprises
World Heritage status safe, Smith says
MP expected to return to Cabinet
Resignation raises council reform questions
Comment: Smith had to go to bring Key some closure
Forget any distinction between resigning and being sacked. Had Nick Smith not fallen on his sword yesterday, one would have fallen on him fairly promptly.
'Bells should have rung'
John Key's Government yesterday sustained its most significant casualty to date with the loss of senior Cabinet minister Nick Smith, who resigned over his interference in an ACC claim by his friend
Cabinet minister Nick Smith resigns