April 12, 2016
Tamihere blasts wardrobe malfunction
Maori Television's newest board member is unimpressed with a wardrobe malfunction at the channel.
On the same day Mihingarangi Forbes' new TV3 show The Hui was launched, a newspaper reported allegations from the head of news and current affairs Maramena Roderick, that the former Native Affairs presenter took $2400 in clothes when she left the show.
Ms Forbes says a former Maori Television manager approved the wardrobe clear-out as compensation for extra work done during the election campaign.
Former Labour minister John Tamihere told Radio Waatea host Willie Jackson it's not the sort of thing he wanted to hear about at his first board meeting.
"I'm sick and tired of Maoris setting Maoris up so Pakehas can put us on the front page of their papers. Why don't they have the Panama Papers and the number of dirty filthy rotten rich white men who have got dirty deals going on. We've got a three thousand dollar set of whatever, whatever, I'm just over it. Our own people are setting us up to advance their own interests. The morehu out here, we don't deserve that nonsense," he says.
Mr Tamihere says Maori Television carries the Maori name and needs to be the ambassador for all Maori.
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