Collins' interview prior to the Breakfast interview was with the rival AM Show. In the interview with Stewart, Collins also claimed she was sick of journalists asking the Prime Minister questions such as "how are you feeling" rather than about vaccines. In the Breakfast interview, Stewart and Collins spoke over each other for several minutes - Stewart trying to ask further questions on a range of subjects including the vaccine roll-out and the Pacific community and Collins trying to answer. And they butted heads further when Stewart asked Collins what she had done to help the Pacific community in terms of the vaccine roll-out. "You know fully well I am deeply involved in the Pacific community... my husband's Pasifika, I talk to him every day, and also I have contacts in the Pacific community," she said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 31, 2021 23:22 UTC