Winston Peters, David Parker, Kelvin Davis and Eugenie Sage all attacked Judith Collins and her husband David Wong-Tung over kauri logs.
They were all wrong, along with a number of media outlets. The media outlets including Radio NZ have all apologised.
Now Eugenie Sage has apologised.
Apology to David Wong-Tung and Oravida
“On the 19th of June 2015, I issued a press release under the title “Govt. stuck in the mud over swamp kauri allegations.”
“I acknowledge that the press release was capable of conveying meanings that were not intended. Specifically, I did not mean to suggest that David Wong-Tung and Oravida were involved in the illegal export of swamp kauri or that they influenced the government or any member of it to turn a blind eye to any such exports.”
“I apologise to Mr Wong-Tung and Oravida for these comments and accept that I had no basis for making them.”
Eugenie Sage MP
So Eugenie Sage dropped her apology late on a Friday hoping no one would notice.
However it does make one wonder why David Parker, Winston Peters and Kelvin Davis haven’t yet apologised to Collins and Wong-Tung for their outrageous smears.
I don’t expect an apology from Winston or Parker, but I thought Kelvin Davis was honourable. I hope he does apologise because I am sure he wouldn’t want others to know just precisely how he managed to beat Hone Harawira at the last election.
– Scoop
As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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