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'Unacceptable': Simeon Brown lodges complaint against TVNZ for reporters behaviour

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 24 Apr 2026, 5:56pm
Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced work is once again under way on the new Dunedin Hospital’s inpatient building. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced work is once again under way on the new Dunedin Hospital’s inpatient building. Photo / Mark Mitchell

'Unacceptable': Simeon Brown lodges complaint against TVNZ for reporters behaviour

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 24 Apr 2026, 5:56pm

Senior National MP Simeon Brown has accused TVNZ news staff of breaching parliamentary rules this week by following National's Stuart Smith into a corridor area and "aggressively banged on" Smith's door for several minutes. 

Simeon Brown told Heather du Plessis-Allan, "ultimately what we're seeing here is behaviour which I think most New Zealanders would say is unacceptable."

This evening Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has pulled out of his weekly TVNZ interview slot, but it isn't clear if these events are connected. 

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