No P.M. means no news
PA Wellington When the Prime Minister is in town he holds regular press conferences after Cabinet and caucus meetings. But Mr Muldoon has been away in Fiji for a Commonwealth mini-summit these last five days, and in his absence there has been a news blackout. The Acting Prime Minister, Mr Maclntyre, advised the Parliamentary press gallery through his office on Thursday last week he would not hold a post-caucus press conference because he had nothing to say. The story (or non-story) was the same yesterday. The Cabinet had met for several hours, but a press secretary rang journalists’ offices to say there would be no lunch-time press conference. Nor, she said, would there be the usual press conference at the end of the Cabinet’s afternoon sitting — which did not go ahead anyway as the Ministers’ business was concluded before lunch. Apparently Mr Maclntyre had advised — before the morning session ended — that there would be nothing to report for public consumption.
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