OPENING SALVO The party desperately needs a new issue, but Winston Peters has recognised that government share offers, once under way, tend to become popular.

John Key’s photo featured 138 times and Phil Goff just 80 times during the last election campaign.

Foreign Affairs Minister is looking for cuts in the $2.8 million budgeted for consultants to complete his ministry's controversial restructuring.

PLUS: China is looking at joining the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a controversial trade agreement between NZ, the US, Australia and other countries around the Pacific.

The National Business Review's confrontation with the Serious Fraud Office featured as opposition MP’s argued late into the night against the proposed Search and Surveillance Bill.

Part three of the controversial Search and Surveillance Bill, which deals with protection orders and directly relates to the Serious Fraud Office’s ability to demand documents from media organisations without a warrant, will prompt strong debate.