14 August 2002

Trotters In The Trough

“The Prime Minister may well have to call in the engineers to increase the number of Beehive oiffice suites in order to house all the Ministers, Ministers outside Cabinet and Under-Secretaries she has appointed today”, said New Zealand First Leader and Member for Tauranga, Rt Hon Winston Peters.

“With 20 Cabinet Ministers, 6 Ministers outside Cabinet and 2 Parliamentary Under Secretaries, Helen Clark has ensured that more than half the Labour MPs are enjoying extra benefits at the taxpayers expense. It must have been a difficult exercise for her to reward all who she felt were owed favours”. said Mr Peters.

“This is a classic case where size is a disadvantage and I am confident the team of 13 New Zealand First MPs will out perform her army of Ministers on every count,” concluded Mr Peters.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On The Government's Assault On Maori

This isn’t news, but the National-led coalition is mounting a sustained assault on Treaty rights and obligations. Audrey Young in the NZ Herald has compiled a useful list of the many ways Christopher Luxon plans to roll back the progress made in race relations over the past forty years. He has described yesterday’s nationwide protests by Maori as “pretty unfair.” Poor thing. More