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Scoop Audio + Photos: Prime Minister's Post Cabinet Press Conference - Monday, 19 October 2009
By Alastair Thompson
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Maori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples and Prime Minister John Key at today's post cabinet press conference See more images below
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NZ Prime Minister John Key's press conference today. He was
accompanied in the first part of the press conference by
Maori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples. Most of the Press
Conference was taken up with an extensive discussion of the
decision by Cabinet to fund a joint bid for free-to-air TV
rights between the Maori Television Service, TVNZ and TV3.
The announcement on this can be read here.
Also discussed in the press conference were: ACC and the Emissions Trading Scheme legislation. Several questions focussed on whether there were management issues in Cabinet given the large number of recent missteps.
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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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