A Radio NZ article.
International music and comedy acts are being approved and rejected for border exemptions in a “game of favourites”, according to a promoter.
British comedian Russell Howard is about to tour New Zealand and other acts allowed in through managed isolation this summer include drag queen RuPaul and musicians at Northern Bass in Mangawhai and the Bay Dreams festival.
The vice-president of the Promoters Association, Gray Bartlett, said despite being an approved promoter with Immigration New Zealand, he was offered no explanation on why acts such as the Music of Cream and American speaker Michael Franzese were turned down.
No-one had spelt out what the criteria were for approval nor who was making the decisions.
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