Buzz from the Beehive
At least one headline-grabbing ministerial announcement had not been posted on the government’s official website, when Point of Order checked early this afternoon.
We learned from other sources that
- Michael Wood has been stood down as Transport Minister over over failing to properly disclose shares owned in Auckland Airport; and
- Rino Tirikatene, Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth, is travelling to Singapore today on a mission (unabashedly discriminatory) to “promote business investment for wāhine entrepreneurs, and explore investment opportunities for Māori land-based aquaculture”.
Just one new announcement had been posted on the Beehive website when we checked. It advised that Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka will be visiting New Zealand this week.
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