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Audio: PM's Presser Monday, February 12, 2007
Scoop Audio: PM's Post Cabinet Presser Monday, February 12, 2007
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With Parliament sitting for the first time in 2007 this week the Prime Minister's post cabinet press conference contained something of a preview of what is likely to come up in tomorrow's question time.
Nuclear arms
manufacturer investments by the NZ Super Fund received short
shrift from the PM during the course of the conference, as
did the idea of a Mortgage Tax which the PM says Michael
Cullen did not "float" on Friday. A mortgage tax was now a
dead duck she said.
Much of the earlier questioning of the PM today revolved around Australian PM John Howard's visit to Wellington this week, and his scrap today with US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on the subject of Iraq. This was one subject that the PM was decidedly unkeen to be drawn into discussing.
Scoop Streaming Audio (click here to listen):PM's
Press Conference, 12/02/07Click to download the file (MP3)
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Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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