Deputy leader ‘listening and learning’

Bronwyn Richardson works on the waste sorting line at the Southland Disability Enterprises plant in Invercargill as National Party MP for Invercargill Sarah Dowie (left) and party deputy leader Paula Bennett look on.

Ms Bennett said she was on a "listening and learning'' trip to the southern city.

Southland Disability Enterprises has been in the news in recent months over fears it may have to retrench many of its workers, many of whom are disabled, if it does not win the tender from Wastenet Southland to recycle the region's waste.