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March 01, 2006
The Smoking Gun...
Prime Minister Helen Clark told parliament yesterday that David Benson-Pope's actions were entirely in line with school policy at the time.
Perhaps she can explain, then, whether the Minister's return to the girl's changing rooms a year after the policy had been clarified, was in line with school policy as well?
Posted by Ian Wishart at March 1, 2006 11:25 AM
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question time was good entertainment today but nowhere as good as canberra, again. Man, the Libs know how to serve it up to the hapless Labor Party.
BTW, here's a question without notice.
Can the editor tell the house whether he has had any repports that the circulation of Investigate magazine has benefited from the free publicity given to the magazine by a few exceedingly pissed off Labour ministers during question time?
Posted by: Adolf Fiinkensein at March 1, 2006 04:15 PM
One can only hope that all those tuning in to hear the bloodsport rushed out to buy a copy, but seriously, the release of a major update to our print story online may have weakened sales of this issue...won't get those figures until next week.
Posted by: ian wishart at March 1, 2006 06:37 PM
perhaps you can do an article on Cullen,quoting him onle or two times, He thinks everything you print is nonsense by definition
Posted by: dave crampton at March 1, 2006 10:04 PM
dang you have some good investigative instincts. holding this timing one so they put the noose around their necks. Beautiful. Well done.
My guess as to why the principal did not show Ben dope the original complaint letter is he would have been concerned about victimisation of the complainant. do you have any angle on that?
Posted by: sagenz at March 2, 2006 10:00 AM
Sagenz,
I'm not sure it's been established that BP was not shown the letter, it's just neither he nor Leadbetter can "recall" whether he was shown the letter.
Even so, the debate is semantic on that point. The issue was whether DBP was aware of any complaints of any kind, which would include verbal, informal and formal.
A mother has said on TV that girls were reluctant to complain for fear it would impact on internally assessed exams.
Posted by: ian at March 2, 2006 12:34 PM