1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,599 Speaker 1: Barry sour pasing your political correspondence with us. Barry, Hello, 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: good afternoon. I was a scale of one to ten. 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: How hard is the press gallery going on the Prime 4 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: Minister over Andrew Bailey's outsign. 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 2: Well, you know, the first significant part of the post 6 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 2: cabinet news conference today was taken up with the gallery 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: questioning Luxon on how the Andrew Bailey issue was handled. Now, 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 2: the point that Luxon was making, and I think it's 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 2: a fair point that he when Luxon raised it with 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 2: him with Andrew Bailey, he apologized profusely. He had attempted 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 2: to do that earlier before it got to the Prime 12 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 2: Minister's office. But the person who complained obviously was doing 13 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 2: the round. To be clearly, this is politically motivated because 14 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 2: it didn't only go to the Prime Minister's office. The 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 2: complaint from this person where to all the other political leaders, 16 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 2: the Maldi Party, the Labor Party, the Greens. They all 17 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 2: got this complaint from this person. And you know, I 18 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 2: don't know what a minister has to do, but this 19 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 2: is to me like a dad joke gone terribly wrong. 20 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: And to expect a minister or a Prime minister to 21 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: say he should surrender his warrant because he made a 22 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 2: silly mistake at a factory is patently ridiculous. 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: On a scale of one to ten. How hard is 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: the media going because it sounds to me like they're 25 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: going quite hard. 26 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,199 Speaker 2: Oh for Andrew basis like, as. 27 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 1: Far as the press gallery is concerned, this is a 28 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: really big deal and it's not you know, how about okay? 29 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: So how about this business about? So the insinuation and 30 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: has come around again. The insinuation is that the National 31 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: Party got in touch with Parliamentary Services and told Parliamentary 32 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: Services to withdraw the email from the Labour, Greens and 33 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: Marty Party. That's the allegation. 34 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 2: Well, it'd be too late, wouldn't it. I'd already have 35 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 2: the email and they don't have to surrender and email. 36 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 2: They got through this, So can. 37 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: I say, where's the proofs? 38 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,559 Speaker 2: Gallery is asking an absolutely impossible thing to prove. 39 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: It's theoretically possible, but there doesn't seem to be any 40 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: proof that announced did this. 41 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 2: No, No, the other issues that recovered and this was 42 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: the main one, which is ridiculous. Simeon Brown. He's received 43 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 2: advice from his advisors on the Wellington City Council what 44 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: to do there he said he'll be now considering it. 45 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 2: Team New Zealand. The Prime Minister was asked about are 46 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: we going to put up any money to Team New 47 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 2: Zealand to host the event here? Prime Minister right, and 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 2: he says, well, that's over to Team New Zealand where 49 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,839 Speaker 2: it's hosted. You know, they're open to having discussions with them, 50 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 2: and that's as far as it can take it can go. 51 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 2: There's Solicitor General the guidelines that you put out to 52 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 2: the Judiciary saying that mild he appears before them, they 53 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 2: have to take special notice on ethnicity grounds. The primes said, look, 54 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: everybody is equal under the law and he's pleased that 55 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 2: the Solicitor General has seen sense and withdrawn that. 56 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: Oh he's pleased. Judith tidied it up that well, Judith, 57 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: clearly Judith tidied it up. Nobody wants to go toe 58 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: to toe with Judith Collins. Chogham has start an SAMOI 59 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: am massive when. 60 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 2: You think about you know, the Commonwealth Heads of Government 61 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 2: meeting being in a tiny Pacific country. They're expecting an 62 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 2: RP of four thousand people. The four hundred and sixty 63 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 2: personnel are being supplied by New Zealand itself. Defense police 64 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 2: ambulances even are being shipped out to ship's probably wrong 65 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 2: in Simul's case, but they're being sent to assist in 66 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: what is a massive meeting. I've been to these Commonwealth 67 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: heads of government meeting, which I like to call chaps 68 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 2: holiday on government money because and they will certainly do that. 69 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 2: In Samoa, King Charles is there, and the Queen Elizabeth 70 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 2: used to go to many of the cholgers until she 71 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 2: got a bit long in the tooth to travel. I 72 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 2: remember the first one I went to was in the Bahamas, 73 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 2: of all places, in Nassau in nineteen eighty five with 74 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: David Longhi and the Britannia was birth there. Now, you know, 75 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: when you look at the scale of these things in 76 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 2: a tiny little country like Samoh hosting it, I think 77 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 2: it's incredible and it will, I guess, as Winston Peters 78 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 2: would say, highlight you know, the Pacific itself and a 79 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 2: small country in the Pacific, because chogham has never been 80 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: held in a country as small as salmol before. Really 81 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 2: is it? Never? No? Never? 82 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: Amazing? Hey, very quickly, what do you make of the 83 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: Health Ministry Cannopse? 84 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 2: Oh, well, i'd like to taste one. It was thirty 85 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: two dollars. 86 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: No, it's notty dollars a cannope, it's per head, so 87 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: you'd have. 88 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 2: It was written as though it was thirty four dollars, 89 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 2: and I know they were sam They would have been 90 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 2: terribly expensive for that if that was the case. But look, 91 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: this came at a time was inappropriate, at a time 92 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 2: when the Health Ministry was complaining about major deficits and 93 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 2: going into the red in a big way. And they 94 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 2: hold a conference giving out Canape's nine two hundred dollars 95 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,559 Speaker 2: lunch and breakfast sixty thousand dollars. I mean they locked 96 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 2: after the health boffins pretty well. 97 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: Very thanks very much, very so for senior political correspondent. 98 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 99 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 1: news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 100 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.