Peter Dunne: Political Commentator says the Greens are stuck in a difficult space around Darleen Tana

A political commentator thinks the Greens are in a difficult space with regard to the Darleen Tana report. 

The embattled MP, who resigned from the party, is denying allegations of knowledge or involvement in migrant exploitation at her husband's business. 

A report into Tana has concluded but has not been made public. 

She broke her silence last night, speaking to TVNZ about her disagreement with the findings of the report. 

Former MP and commentator Peter Dunne told Mike Hosking that invoking the waka jumping legislation could mean even more weeks til the matter's resolved. 

He says its likely she's throwing down the gauntlet to the Greens. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And a sign that Darling Tanner's digging and she managed
to bring the media, but not her own party, who
still can't get hold of her. Apparently she still disputes
the report, which we've yet to see, although the only
people holding up its releases I understand it now are
Tanner herself Andrew, her husband. Anyway, Peter duns with us
on this, Peter, very good morning to you, good one.
Having seen the interview last night and she said nothing
particularly coherent. She doesn't agree with the report, which is

(00:20):
her right. Isn't the ball now in the Green's court?
They've got to do something about this?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yes, and I think this is I thought originally her
response had two bits foot, but I'm not so sure now.
I thought she was on the one hand, she could
be undecided about the future. On the other, which I
think is far more likely, she's now throwing down the
gold book to the Greens. You move, not me, and
I think that's going to put them in a very
difficult position.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Indeed, what does it say about Chloe's leadership that this
has been allowed to drag on for so long? And
I'm assuming in an embarrassing way.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well seventeen weeks class and it's certainly not going to
be resolved in anytime soon. Does show I think a
lack of both decisiveness and also empathy within the Green Party.
They haven't really tried to work out a cheerway through this,
if Darlian Tanner's account is correct. But they said we
came to the meeting and said right, you've got to resign,
then that doesn't show much in the way of personnel

(01:11):
management skills.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
No, indeed not the walker jumping. I get that they're
against it, but what better example is there because you
can't possibly want this woman wandering off one is an
independent or worst of the Marray Party, can you?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, that's right, and the differently of the Greens have
not though is of course we saw wed go right
back to the Donnerty other case in the early two thousands.
It's not an open and shut case. Case dragged on
and went to the High Court in the end over
many many months, and that's the last thing the Greens
would want. So if Tana's not going to cooperate and
go quietly and they decided to invoke the walk up

(01:44):
dumping legislation, then the seventeen weeks we've had so far
could probably treble. What the matters results?

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Should they release the report despite the fact Tanna and
her husband don't want it released, given we paid for
most of it.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, I think I think it does need to be
released because there's obviously a public debate about who said what,
who did what, when and how And it's not good
enough really for Tanna and her husband to say, you know,
we don't think the report's correct, but we don't want
it released. That just doesn't stack up.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Now it does. Nice to say you, Petter, appreciate it
as always, Peter done. Are they just weird or is
it me? I mean, are increasingly looking like a bunch
of weirdos. The more you look into the party, the
more odd they are. And I said yesterday on the program,
this does go back to candidate selection. Clearly, nobody asks
any questions at all about your background, where you've been,
what you think, how you behave all of these sort
of questions. Do not forget this was about migrant exploitation.

(02:32):
This was not There was nothing lighthearted about this. This
is about migrant exploitation. One of the worst things you
could possibly do one as a human being, but be
as a politician, I would have thought. For more from
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