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Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury

Resignation of PM’s press secretary highlights gaps in NZ law on covert recording and harassment

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The sudden resignation this week of one of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s senior press secretaries was politically embarrassing, but also raises questions about how New Zealand law operates in such cases.

A Stuff investigation revealed the Beehive staffer allegedly recorded audio of sessions with sex workers, and whose phone contained images and video of women at the gym, supermarket shopping, and filmed through a window while getting dressed.

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