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Audio + Images: PM's Post Cabinet Presser 28 March 2011
Prime Minister's Post Cabinet Presser 28 March 2011
Scoop Audio + Photos: Press conference held after today's cabinet meeting by Prime Minister John Key and Social Development Minister Paula Bennett - Monday, 28 March 2011
By Alastair Thompson
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Social Development Minister Paula Bennett and Prime Minister John Key See more images below
- Scoop Audio (20 Minutes): Audio
on demand of Prime Minister John Key's press conference
today. The first part of the press conference concerned the
announcement of an extension Job Loss wage subsidy scheme in
Canterbury (See.. Job
Loss Cover extended for Christchurch individuals - Government
extends employment support package for Chch - Earthquake
Tax Relief Measures Announced - PM
extends business, employment assistance for
Christchurch). Neither the PM nor the Welfare Minister
had any projections of how many more people could be
expected to join the dole queue as a result of the phased
end to the scheme.
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The PM then moved on to discuss the creation of an Earthquake Recovery Agency which will be formally announced tomorrow by the PM in Christchurch. Most of the questioning concerned the expected non-appointment (as expected and widely reported) of Martyn Dunne to head the agency. (BusinessDesk's Pattrick Smellie has covered this in detail here: Politicians, officials duck for cover over quake czar job ). It has been rumoured that the reasons for the non-appointment are due to a clash between Dunne and Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee.
Finally the PM announced the beginning of a nationwide push against school bullying.
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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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