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Article: Talk isn't cheap when Tuku makes TV
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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By DAVID FISHERTukoroirangi Morgan got money for a te reo adviser
on a TV show in which few Maori words are spoken.
Matua Whaangai has already been criticised because Morgan filmed
it in his mother-in-law's garden shed, which he rented for $70,000 of
public money.
Now further details about the programme have emerged after a
ruling by ombudsmen that funding agency Te Mangai Paho (TMP) should
release the entire budget.
TMP has refused to supply the information, claiming that to do so
would "unreasonably prejudice the commercial position of (Morgan's
company) Astraeus NZ Ltd". The Star-Times appealed to the ombudsmen,
stating that it was unlikely anyone was going to outbid Morgan for
his ...