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Thursday, August 03, 2006

MP's finger gesture sparks row on images

MP's finger gesture sparks row on images
NZ First MP Ron Mark

This is what your elected representatives get up to in Parliament. And they don't want you to know. Yup, apparently taking pictures of MPs behaving like children is against the rules. Which is completely against the spirit of transparency in government.

Parliament is looking at installing their own cameras and then making the footage available to the news media, which means we won't see MPs sleeping, or knitting or giving each other the finger. In other words, government censorship. If there is one place every New Zealander deserves to be able to view uncensored, it's Parliament. Of course then we might see what a bunch of prats we've elected, and we couldn't have that!

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