Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: oia

  • QOTD: Felix Marwick on the OIA and John Key’s hats

    I missed this earlier in the week: an update on Felix Marwick’s long-running attempts to uncover the extent of John Key’s communications with bloggers (i.e. Farrar and Slater). The last…

  • Charging for OIAs

    A number of journos on Twitter have started highlighting the somewhat ridiculous amounts of money they’re being quoted by government departments and DHBs to fulfil requests made under the Official…

  • Who texts the PM?

    An OIA request for information about the Prime Minister deleting his text messages is back (hat-tip to @eey0re) and Wayne Eagleson has found another wafer-thin excuse for the wholesale deletion…

  • Hiding the government’s failure on poverty

    Three weeks ago I snarked John Key’s sudden desire to take serious action on child poverty. Now, thanks to Radio New Zealand, we know that not only has Treasury been…