Audio & Images: PM Presser On Waitangi, Veitch, TPP & More..

Monday, 7 February 2011, 5:30 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

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Prime Minister John Key at his Monday,07 February 2011 Press Conference See more images below

• Scoop Audio (31 Minutes): Audio on Demand of NZ Prime Minister John Key's post Cabinet press conference for Parliamentary press gallery journalists held this afternoon. The PM began by announcing a visit by Australian PM Julia Gillard and a brief readout of other recent business including a raise in the minimum wage. This was followed by a wide ranging Q&A which touched on:
  - Waitangi Day;
  - the Maori Party meltdown and the future of Hone Harawira;
  - the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations scheduled to resume next Monday;
  - his planned statement to the House of Parliament tomorrow;
  - the size and efficiency of the public service;
  - the appropriateness of his regular appearances on Tony Veitch's radio show, his questionable experience as a model, and the appropriateness of his comments on Liz Hurley's hotness on the Veitch radio show;
  - whether or not he is an a-hole - in response to a statement to that effect from the mother of a young Maori girl who he took to Waitangi two years ago, and who now feels that her personal position has deteriorated;
  - the minimum wage increase;
  - differences in economic policy between National and Labour.

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