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...

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...

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 ...

Stuff has a story about ACC lying in an OIA response , and how it was exposed by a whistleblower under the Protected Disclosures (Protectio...

When the government passes legislation trampling on civil liberties it loves to insert - and crow about - "safeguards" which will ...

Back in 2018, Aotearoa was in the midst of the Operation Burnham inquiry. During this, it emerged that key evidence was subject to a US veto...

When the Parliament Bill Committee rejected calls for Parliamentary agencies to be subject to the Official Information Act last month, thei...

Yesterday The Post had a long exit interview with outgoing Ombudsman Peter Boshier , in which he complains about delinquent agencies which ...

The Parliament Bill Committee has reported back on the Parliament Bill . As usual, they recommend no substantive changes, all decisions hav...

Yesterday outgoing Ombudsman Peter Boshier published a report, Reflections on the Official Information Act , on his way out the door. The re...

Back in December, Lands Minister Chris Penk rejected proposals to recognise the proper names of Manawatū and Pito One . Both proposals were ...

For the past few years I've been waging war on secrecy clauses, submitting at select committee where clauses in legislation seem to over...