PM's Post-Cabinet Press Conference 17 June 19: Farmers and Families
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was joined by Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Agriculture Minister Damien
O'Connor to announce cabinet's approval of a bill to introduce more options for mediation before lenders can take action
over farm debt.
Ardern had begun Monday's post-cabinet press conference by noting the release of Maui and Hectors dolphin protection
consultation.
All three stayed to discuss the mediation bill and farm debt, before Ardern answered questions on the ANZ bank's current
issues, advice given to the government on vaccinations and vaccine stocks, Oranga Tamariki's taking of Māori babies into
state care and efforts to reduce these numbers, ethnicity in foster parenting, the government's position in genetic
modification, the attacks in the Persian Gulf being attributed to Iran by the US, and the strongly-protested Hong Kong
extradition bill.