Audio: PM Press Conference - RWC, ACC and ETS

Monday, 19 October 2009, 6:06 pm
Article: 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

• Scoop Audio: Audio on Demand of 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.

• Scoop Images: More images from today's PM's press conference.

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