Minister's wife admits role over permit 1

Mr Field has maintained this week that there was "no employment arrangement" and that Mr [Sunan Siriwan] worked on the Fields' house voluntarily while staying in a garage on the property awaiting a work permit to go back to New Zealand. National Party immigration spokesman Tony Ryall...

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Published inThe New Zealand herald
Main Authors Collins, Simon, Jackson, Cherelle, Binning, Elizabeth
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand Media and Entertainment, NZME 16.09.2005
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Field, Taito Phillip
Siriwan, Sunan
Williams, Keith
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Summary:Mr Field has maintained this week that there was "no employment arrangement" and that Mr [Sunan Siriwan] worked on the Fields' house voluntarily while staying in a garage on the property awaiting a work permit to go back to New Zealand. National Party immigration spokesman Tony Ryall said the Fields' arrangements with Mr Siriwan clearly breached a Cabinet rule that "ministers must ensure that no conflict exists or appears to exist between their public duty and their private interests". "Thailand is not a refugee case," he said. "The general attitude of the service and the minister has been that if you have lodged a false claim for refugee status, you're out of here, sunshine. We don't want to know you, don't come back."
ISSN:1170-0777