Labour's 'Minister of Sleaze' Shane Jones is on the front page of the morning newspapers, after a 'day of shame' over spending on his ministerial credit card.
Under a banner headline - 'The Seven Deadly Sins' - The New Zealand Herald says Labour list MP Shane Jones on Thursday began bluffing away the dirty secret he has carried for two years, saying he could not recall if he put porn movies on his ministerial credit card.
By the end of the day he had admitted it and was questioning his future in politics.
The paper's chief political commentator goes on to say Labour must demote Mr Jones after the disclosures.
The Dominion Post headline reads "Snouts in the Trough" and says a 'day of shame' has hit the leadership hopes of Labour high flier Shane Jones.
Describing him as the 'Minister of Sleaze', the paper says Mr Jones has now admitted to widespread use of his ministerial card, but says he has repaid all personal expenditure.
And there's a highlighted list of the way other MPs spent money on their cards, including alcohol, golf clubs, Chinese food and a bike.
In The Press, Mr Jones denies he's a sex fiend and says Thursday was 'Shane's day of shame.'
The Otago Daily Times says Mr Jones, the former building and construction minister, is facing certain demotion in Labour's caucus and demotion from his safe list place of 16 - if he survives the current political and personal crisis.
Other news
The front page of The Press has the story of a home buyer's headache: To fix or not to fix? That is the question after Thursday's Reserve Bank decision to raise the Official Cash Rate.
Commentators say there is still money to be saved by remaining on the floating rate.
The ODT reports Mercury Energy has offered to meet angry Dunedin business owners halfway, after mistakenly offering them drastically discounted power if they agreed to switch power companies.
Mercury representatives cold-called 400 businesses last month, offering discounts - in one case 30% - if they signed-up over the phone.
The offer was later withdrawn, on the basis the dramatic discounts were meant for businesses in Dannevirke instead.
