No Right Turn

Two weeks ago the Ombudsman released his final opinion on the Prime Minister's unlawful hiding of information around his corrupt climat...

Back in May, we learned that climate polluters had bought themselves an exemption from the law (an exemption that will be passed through it...

The Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee has reported back on the Commerce (Promoting Competition and Other Matters) Amen...

Back in March, Newsroom 's Sam Sachdeva reported that the regime was planning to use high costs as an excuse to limit access to the Offi...

Last week, we learned that climate polluters had been writing our climate laws , and trying to hide the evidence by handing over their deman...

Last night TVNZ revealed an outrageous act of corruption by the Luxon regime. Earlier in the month, Luxon had promised a law to prevent poll...

The cover story of today's Substandard is the forced release of Palmerston North Mayor Grant Smith's credit card expenses . The act...

For the past decade, successive governments have been chipping away at the Official Information Act, exempting agencies and passing secrecy ...

Newsroom has an opinion piece by Marcus Ganley, on the problems of proactive release of official information . The government releases vast...

Graeme Edgeler had an interesting piece the other day advocating for crown solicitors to be subject to the Official Information Act . Unique...

A couple of weeks ago, when the Financial Times reported that the UK regime was planning to attack their Freedom of Information Act because...

Fishing is a criminal industry . Fishers routinely lie about catch sizes, illegally dump bycatch, and cover up the murder of protected speci...

Back in December the regime introduced the Commerce (Promoting Competition and Other Matters) Amendment Bill . While doing various other thi...

Former district court judge David Harvey has a column in the Herald today lamenting the state of the Official Information Act . Like others...

The Ministry of Health is in my experience one of the worst performing government agencies when it comes to handling OIA requests. They unla...

Back in September, the regime announced plans to give new powers to the Commerce Commission . But the announcement also included this: We h...

One of the common criticisms governments make of oppositions is that they're inexperienced, and have no idea how to be ministers or run ...

I'm a regular submitter on legislation, and one of my pet topics is transparency. A lot of recent laws propose secrecy clauses - excludi...

Fishing is a criminal industry , with fishers routinely violating quotas, under-reporting bycatch, and engaging in fraud to profit from pill...

A ballot for three member's bills was held this morning, and the following bills were drawn: Local Government (Port Companies Accounta...