The Prime Minister provides updates on a recent SAS undertaking in Afghanistan (during which the members of the unit engaged in a firefight with insurgents) and the progress of Cabinet on issues surrounding the mining of parts of the conservation estate. He notes that the Minister of Finance will release a major infrastructure document later this week, that the Minister of Labour will shortly release a discussion document on personal grievance procedures, that Hon Wayne Mapp will later this week release the CRI Task Force report, that Hon Gerry Brownlee will on Thursday speak at the commissioning of the Maori oil field, and that Hon Paula Bennett has today released an announcement of an increase in benefits and pensions from 01 April. He goes on to discuss his schedule for the week and takes questions from the media on topics ranging from the SAS to ministerial credit card spending, the Chile earthquake/tsunami, New Zealand's tsunami warning, and the relationship between the public and the Police.

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