February 27, 2013
Note-free meeting strains credibility
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says the Prime Minister still isn't telling the truth about the proposed Auckland Convention Centre.
In parliament yesterday, John Key retracted a claim he made last week that Sky City had a deal to buy land from Television New Zealand next to its Auckland casino.
TVNZ says it had received no approaches from Sky City.
Mr Peters says Mr Key still won't come clean on his original meeting where Sky City raised the idea of expanding its convention centre.
“He's expecting us to believe that he went to this meeting which is the flagship of his tourism policy. That’s why he’s changing all the rules in terms of Auckland’s development and he never kept any notes? This is just bull dust. He’s got no notes before he went to the meeting, he’s got no notes during the meeting, no record of the meeting and neither has Sky City. I think that it is straight out damn lying,” he says.
Rather than make an immediate call on the Sky City plan, the Government invoked other groups including Ngāti Whatua ō Orakei to make proposals without telling them it was unwilling to put any money into the deal.
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