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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-980/
- Published: 2024-06-04T18:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-04T03:47:54.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> Parliament’s Speaker, Gerry Brownlee, has rebuked an MP for allowing lobbyists to construct an “art installation” and film in the Beehive.  
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> A few days before the Budget was released, the Taxpayers Union released a video filmed from the Beehive Banquet Hall – the same space the Budget was released – that argued cuts to the public service were not significant.  
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> The video, titled “Cuts in Context”, involved the construction of a cardboard box “art installation” in the Beehive.  
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> Brownlee told *Stuff* there was no issue with political material being filmed in Parliament, but he said it was “totally inappropriate” for lobby groups to make use of the facilities – and publish material that had no clear connection to any MP.  
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> “Parliament is not a place for others to come and use facilities in a way that is advantageous to their political viewpoint,” he said.  
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> “The place is here for MPs to promote polices in line with their constituencies, but we don’t open the place up for messaging from other organisations without very specific permission.”  
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> Brownlee said he made it clear to the MP that invited the Taxpayers Union to Parliament that this had gone against Parliament’s rules. He did not tell *Stuff* which MP had broken the rules, but the ACT Party confirmed they invited the Taxpayers Union to Parliament.  
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> A spokesperson said the Speaker’s Office was told there would be a videographer at the event.  
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> “We formally hosted the Taxpayers’ Union but no ACT MPs attended the event,” the spokesperson said.  
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> “We understand permission to film was not explicitly sought.”  
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> The video showed cardboard box towers illustrating the growth of the public service in recent years, with the organisation arguing recent job cuts – about 5000 – had not made a dent.  
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> Stuff

[Read more here](https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350298087/nz-politics-live-speaker-rebukes-mp-allowing-lobbyists-film-beehive?ref=goodoil.news#tickaroo%5Fevent%5Fid=en7eBzWa4xe42hwH6LH8). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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