Fresh news – since our previous Buzz – comes from Oceans and Fisheries Minister David Parker. He has announced he will represent New Zealand at the second United Nations (UN) Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, which runs from 27 June to 1 July.
Other ministers presumably have gone home for the long weekend to celebrate the nation’s first authentically Māori public holiday, Matariki
Consistent with the Government’s enthusiasm for mobilising the media and commandeering the airwaves to broadcast Matariki-focused mass programming, we imagined they all would be pitching in with press statements to promote Matariki or instruct us about its cultural significance.
Not so. We found only a speech from the PM and one press statement in the names of the PM, Kelvin Davis and Kiri Allan.
