{"id":4462,"date":"2015-04-16T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2015-04-16T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:01:44","slug":"gerry-brownlees-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4462","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Brownlee&#8217;s conflict of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana news editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bronwers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4463\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bronwers.jpg\" alt=\"bronwers\" width=\"237\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bronwers.jpg 237w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bronwers-50x35.jpg 50w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bronwers-90x65.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0minister of Defence Gerry Brownlee has developed a friendship with reality TV queen and mediaworks executive Julie Christie. Mr\u00a0Brownlee arranged for his friend\u00a0Julie to be appointed to the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Board.<\/p>\n<p>NZ Herald Dec 13th 2013<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>The parliamentary press gallery&#8217;s annual Christmas knees-up on Wednesday night was blessed with the surprise appearance of TV mogul Julie Christie, who arrived on the arm of good chum Gerry Brownlee.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;Old Gerry was looking after her. They obviously like each other. He was using his considerable mana about the place to impress Jules,&#8221; gushed one prominent insider.<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Julie Christie has been upfront from day one she wanted Campbell live gone\u00a0and is going to replace the 7pm slot for\u00a0Campbell Live with a new reality TV show.<\/p>\n<p>This is a conflict of interest from the Minister of Defence and a clear example of the National government stacking boards with its\u00a0friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana news editor Joe Trinder The\u00a0minister of Defence Gerry Brownlee has developed a friendship with reality TV queen and mediaworks executive Julie Christie. Mr\u00a0Brownlee arranged for his friend\u00a0Julie to be appointed to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}