22 Jun 2022

Govt spent $43k on another pregnancy-related MIQ case

From Checkpoint, 5:23 pm on 22 June 2022

The government spent tens of thousands of dollars in a legal battle against a pregnant woman who was applying for an emergency MIQ spot for her husband.

Roshni Sami's was trying to get her husband to New Zealand before she gave birth. But just a day before the case was to be heard in the High Court, MBIE changed its mind and granted her husband a room.

But the government spent $43,000 in the process.

Checkpoint reporter Katie Todd explains the details with Lisa Owen.