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Scoop Full Coverage: The Peters Proceedings

Thursday, 28 August 2008, 4:26 pm
Article: Scoop Full Coverage

Scoop Full Coverage: The Peters Proceedings

Politics: Rodney Hide's Churchillian Ploy

Did you see Rodney Hide during the hearings, sitting right in camera shot, pin-striped, with a face of thunder, brow furrowed and a mask of seriousness upon which walnuts could be cracked? What’s happening here is... to transform Rodney into the very man Winston Peters worships... More >>

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Peters Saga Fallout: Sharples Dobs In Parekura Horomia

Dr Sharples said he was not only taken aback by the personal attack from Winston Peters, but was disappointed at the personal lobbying by a NZ First staffer and a government Minister over the past weekend to influence the Maori Party's decision prior to the vote. More >>

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Politics: Peters Censured

Rt Hon Winston Peters says he is grateful to those Privileges Committee members who applied themselves fairly and neutrally to the hearings and kept open minds despite the enormous controversy swirling within and outside Parliament. More >>

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Gordon Campbell: The Contemptible Behaviour of both Peters and Key

This week, the public itself could be forgiven for treating Parliament with contempt. In a majority decision, the privileges committee has found that New Zealand First leader Winston Peters had "some knowledge" of the $100,000 gift made in December 2005 by businessman Owen Glenn. Within the space of 12 hours, National party leader John Key also stood accused of (a) initially concealing the existence and then (b) of lying about the extent of the shares in Tranzrail held by him and his family trust in 2002 and 2003. More >>

Godwinning? Hide Compares Peters SFO Tiff To Carnage In Zimbabwe

ACT Leader Rodney Hide today called on Prime Minister Helen Clark to condemn Winston Peters' attack on the integrity of the Serious Fraud Office and Attorney-General Dr Michael Cullen's failure to express confidence in SFO Director Grant Liddell. "Kiwis want honest government, Ministers held to account by the same laws as the rest of us, and a fearlessly independent civil service and police force. We don't want our civil service and police politically-cowed, Mugabe-style, or guilt and truth dictated by our Prime Minister. More >>

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Gordon Campbell: Brian Henry’s last stand at the privileges committee

The final lingering image of the privileges committee investigation of Winston Peters was an apt one - a scrum of journalists gathered round Rodney Hide afterwards, virtually begging to be spun... More >>

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Peters Saga: Brian Henry's Return To the Privileges Committee

Scoop went down and collected audio, images, tabled documents and video of the labyrinthine and positively Byzantine saga of whether or not Winston Peter's knew about a donation made to his legal fighting fund back in late 2005. As usual Mr Peter's chief tormentor Rodney Hide was there front row centre seat of the public gallery lapping it all up via the video link-up. More >>

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Winston Peters Speech: A Land Full Of Noise

If you believe some media reports you were probably expecting some kind of monster with a red coat, forked feet, horns, and a tail, breathing fire and smoke! Sorry if you are disappointed. It’s only me! No horns, no tail, no problem! More >>

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Peters Soap Opera: Gordon Campbell On Peters’ Latest Performance

Winston Peters goal last night was simple survival. And if the rules of natural justice rules still apply, he did manage to shake Owen Glenn’s testimony just enough to avoid summary execution. Glenn’s account of events may still sound like the more plausible one - but this is a quasi-courtroom, not a soap opera. Its not about which character we like or trust the most. Peters big achievement last night was to keep the Glenn vs Peters credibility issue alive, and on the committee table. More >>

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Peters Saga: Gordon Campbell On The Owen Glenn Testimony

With hindsight – or even you’d think, with foresight - it was not a great idea for Michael Cullen to be leading the Labour bloc’s attempt to dent Owen Glenn’s testimony to the privileges committee. It only made Cullen, Russell Fairbrother, and Paul Swain look like they were doing legal work for Winston Peters pro bono, by challenging Glenn’s powers of recall. That is not the position the Clark government should be taking, right now. More >>

Scoop Audio: PM'S Presser 08 September 2008

Audio of the Prime Minister Helen Clark's Post-Cabinet press conference for 08 September 2008. The PM hints at a November election day. Discusses the Owen Glenn and Winston Peters statements. More >>

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Election Returns: NZ First Writes Another Letter

The Electoral Commission has received formal correspondence from the president of New Zealand First in respect of the party's annual donation returns for 2005, 6, and 7. More >>

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Peters: Police Complaint "Grandstanding”

New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters has described Rodney Hide’s complaint to police today as obsessive, compulsive, grandstanding behaviour More >>

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Privileges Committee: Committee Releases Owen Glenn Appearance Teaser

As advised at the Privileges Committee meeting this morning, the committee intends to hear evidence from Mr Owen Glenn in person following question time on Tuesday. More >>

Peters Saga: Mr Glenn And Mr Peters' Latest Recollections Of 2005


Accusations that Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters solicited a donation from wealthy expatriate businessman Owen Glenn and failed to declare it to parliament's 'register of pecuniary interests' have led to Mr Peters being hauled before parliament's privileges committee. In the latest round of this saga both Mr Glenn and Mr Peter's evidence of whether or not a donation was solicited by Mr Peter's personally seem at odds. More >>

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Art And Politics: Poltical Upheavals Cause Stage Chaos

The twists and turns of the Winston Peter’s affair are creating headaches for the comedy show The Stadium that opens at the Wellington Performing Arts Centre Friday 12th September. The show is satirical comedy about Auckland’s ham-fisted attempts to prepare for the 2011 Rugby World Cup and Winston Peters plays a key role in the drama... More >>

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Gordon Campbell: The Bad Blood Between the SFO and Peters

Like clashing CGI dinosaurs in a Peter Jackson movie, the Serious Fraud Office and Winston Peters seem to be creatures from another era, and not entirely real. More >>

Peters Fallout Biffo: Key Accuses PM Of Being 'Erratic'
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Helen Clark’s increasingly erratic behaviour is a sign that she’s in trouble. More >>

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PM Announcement: Peters Stands Down From Porfolios
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that the Rt Hon Winston Peters has offered to stand aside from his portfolios while the Serious Fraud Office makes its investigations. Helen Clark said that at Mr Peters request she would become Acting Minister in each of his portfolios. More >>

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Peters Saga: Key Super Pleased With PM Being Stunning
Helen Clark’s stunning revelation today that she was told in February by Owen Glenn that he had donated $100,000 to Winston Peters leaves the Prime Minister with a lot of explaining to do, says National Party Leader John Key. “This is a stunning revelation. Months have gone by since Helen Clark was informed by Mr Glenn about the $100,000 donation. More >>

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Scoop Satire: Satirists Write Open Letter To Winston Peters
I write to you today on a matter of urgent public importance. I know that you are facing great pressure now and will no doubt face more in the future. The risks could not be more grave. There has been talk of the end of your political career. We urge you not to let this happen. If it does, what in the name of all that's holy will we write about? More >>

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Gordon Campbell: A Privileged Look At Peters’ Proceedings
On the night, it seemed like game, set and match to Winston Peters in his initial skirmish with Parliament’s privileges committee. If this was heat being applied in the political kitchen, Peters barely raised a sweat. Ostensibly, this committee of eleven senior MPs from right across the political spectrum had been called together to consider a complaint from ACT leader Rodney Hide that Peters was in contempt of Parliament. More >>

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