"A Tuhoe kaumatua says you've really put you foot in your mouth, John." "Possibly safer than putting it in his, Gerry!" 14 May 2010

"A Tuhoe kaumatua says you've really put you foot in your mouth, John." "Possibly safer than putting it in his, Gerry!" 14 May 2010
Date
2010
Reference
DCDL-0014347
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Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee sits at a table having a glass of wine with PM John Key. Gerry Brownlee reads a newspaper with the headline 'Cannibal quip "in poor taste"' and comments that a Tuhoe kaumatua says John Key has really put his foot in his mouth. John Key replies that it is possibly safer that putting his foot in the kaumatua's mouth. Refers to a 'joke' by PM John Key when speaking at a tourism event in Auckland; Mr Key made a joke about enjoying a dinner at a Ngati Porou marae on the East Coast this week. He said 'the good news is that I was having dinner with Ngati Porou as opposed to their neighbouring iwi, which is Tuhoe, in which case I would have been dinner, which wouldn't have been quite so attractive'. The joke has been labelled badly timed and insensitive by a Maori Party MP. It was specifically referring to Key's apparent about-turn by denying that Tuhoe would ever be granted ownership of the Urewera National Park after Tuhoe believed that this was going to be the case.

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Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
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"A Tuhoe kaumatua says you've really put you foot in your mouth, John." "Possibly safer than putting it in his, Gerry!" 14 May 2010. Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]. Ref: DCDL-0014347. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22491881

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