Jeffries claims defamation
The Minister of Transport, Mr Jeffries, has told his lawyers to begin action for defamation against the Australian magazine, the “Bulletin,V for ts assertion that he left briefing notes in a Qantas aircraft. Thle magazine had said he left the papers on a seat in a Qantas aircraft
after flying to Sydney three weeks ago for talks with his Australian coun- ! terpart, Senator Garethi Evans, according to a i statement by Mr Jeffries last evening. “This claim is abso-; lutely false,” the Minister' said. “I emphatically deny that I left any papers on i the aircraft in which I;
travelled to Australia, which incidentally was ' Air New Zealand flight I TES, on the morning of | March 15. i “In view of trie seriously defamatory nature of the ’Bulletin’ article I have instructed my lawyers to start legal pro- . ceedings in Australia immediately.”
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