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Scoop Audio: Goff, Mapp & Key 'Caucus Run' Stand-up
Scoop Audio: Goff, Mapp & Key 'Caucus Run' Stand-up Audio
Report – By Reesh Lyon.
Goff on asylum seekers: "It's not a huge and overwhelming threat to New Zealand - it's Australia that people are targeting. [John Key] is building into a bigger problem than it is. It is a potential problem."
Goff also fields questions about: capital gains tax; Don Brash / Pita Sharples stoush; Crete veterans; Government debt & borrowing.
Key on asylum seekers: "The intelligence we've had is that its a possibility they were coming to New Zealand. These people smugglers are criminals... they don't really care about the outcomes of the people on the boat."
Key also fields questions about: refugee quotas; capital gains taxes.
Mapp on Crete veterans: "We need to be able to do better... the goal for the future would be to cover their airfares and accommodation."
Notes:
A boat carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers was intercepted in
Indonesia on Saturday and was apparently headed for New
Zealand.
Elderly veterans of the Battle of Crete were not fully funded to attend 70th anniversary commemorations.
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