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Prime Minister Helen Clark has announced that New
Zealand First leader Winston Peters and United Future leader
Peter Dunne have been allocated ministerial positions in a
Labour-led Government. Labour has successfully negotiated a
Centre-Right deal that offers immediate assurance that it
can govern with New Zealand First and the United Party
having signed confidence and supply agreements. The
Progressive Party will be inside a coalition with Labour,
and the Green Party has committed to support the government
during confidence and supply votes but misses out on having
a role inside the executive. See... Audio
& Images: PM Clark Govt. Formation Presser
AUDIO: Rod Donald On The Shafting Of
The Greens - Today, the afternoon after what was
clearly not a high point in the political history of the
Green Party, 95Bfm News Director Noelle McCarthy interviewed
Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald about the election 2005
coalition negotiations, their outcomes and the elevation of
Winston Peters to Foreign Minister. See... BFm
Audio: Noelle McCarthy IV With Rod Donald
Russell Brown & More From
Public Address - There are some angry Greens over on
Frogblog. In the heat of the moment, some of them seem
inclined to turn on their leaders and go hostile on the
Left: to do an Alliance, in other words. I don't think that
would be too smart. On the face of it - and according to all
the news reports - the Greens don't get a lot in hard terms.
But they didn't ask for a lot. They made a virtue of going
into negotiation without an array of bottom lines, and the
agreement they now have, for no promise of support on
confidence and supply (just a promise not to vote against
the government), is the same one they had already negotiated
in return for their active support of a Labour-led
government. See... Public
Address 18/10/05 - Anger Management
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