it came in three separate payments – as requested by Banks so he could keep the donation anonymous. It being three payments is not sufficient in itself to allow the donation to be declared "anonymous", it is also necessary that it is actually anonymous i....
True. That was a depressing reminder :-p
I'm happy to joint that with an "and" :) Whatever RedBaron's intention was (and I agree it appears to have been to attack a politician because of something his brother did), it also publicly attacked the brother, and the wider family for accepting the ...
RedBaron writes, Not sure why this hit such a nerve. You publicly attacked someone because their brother is a politician - as if politicians' families are fair game.
RedBaron writes, Isn’t Tremain the one who has the brother who decided at a cricket test match to discuss the Sri Lankan? team in some very unflattering ways. This sort of talk must have been acceptable at the family dinner table? Are your opinions on all ...
hush minx writes, Also important that the replacement isn’t someone that the right can use as a ‘see, this is just a Robertson stalking machine’ Should Labour really let the right decide their leader's next chief of staff?
Does not have children != queer
Cactus Kate writes, Boag was doing ok talking about something her lawyer would have told her not to, up until she shot her credibility entirely by saying Whale was “pissed off” she didn’t help him with his insurance case. Is the woman completely mad? Whale...
Cactus Kate writes, Boag was doing ok talking about something her lawyer would have told her not to, up until she shot her credibility entirely by saying Whale was “pissed off” she didn’t help him with his insurance case. Is the woman completely mad? Whale...
No. The concept of a Minister's Office, and its separation from the Ministry or Department is very clear and well understood.
lprent writes, That in essence requires that they knowingly used false facts when they were aware of the true facts at the time. Wouldn't it be sufficient if they recklessly claimed things were facts when they weren't adequately certain of their truth, ...
It doesn't much matter who covers Collins' costs (as long as it's not the crown), the damage is to her credibility and image, not her bank account.
Is it the second because of the first? Or the second because he always wanted to and she finally gave him a chance?
James, It sounds an awful lot like you're criticising - or even attacking - Pullar. Although I'm not quite sure what for, is it: 1) For receiving a massive privacy breach? 2) For going to the media to raise the issue of privacy breach by ACC? 3) Receiving ...
Worth noting that she's saying she is entitled to ask, not entitled to receive :)
Eddie writes: [ this comment displays a disturbing lack of knowledge from someone who ran for parliament last year. Mallard and Little aren't part of the Executive so there is no option for their costs to be covered by the Crown. Eddie] Actually MPs can ...
I was commenting on the effect of seeing being a board director as a cushy content-free job which can be done without paying attention or putting them time in.
Which is how one ends up with 300 hours community service and a $100k fine :)
I think Lanthanide and my point is that perhaps an unredacted/masked list of ACC clients shouldn't be in their DMS to begin with. There are many reasons to redact at the point of extraction from the core system. While it may be a simple mistake to send the...
I am suddenly curious about whether any government agencies routinely data mask when they extract from their core systems. If masking was done as part of the standard process for extracting data there wouldn't be real names floating around in spreadsheets ...
It wouldn't surprise me at all if some of the other known recipients printed it. What the PC's forensics will find depends partly on how stupid or careless the leaker(s) were, how much access the PC has to their systems, how their systems were set up, and ...
Some agencies use printers which allow tracing of printed material, but it's uncommon. I have no idea if that is true in Minister's offices.
I thought I saw, back in the dim mists of time, something saying that the problem with what she was sent was that it wasn't redacted or data masked. That kinda made sense to me, I can think of lots of questions which would get a response of a data set of ...
Are you saying I should be charged with blackmail if I say "if you don't repair the roof that I bought last year I'll go to Fair Go!"?
I see printed emails all the time. I even print some of them myself :) Most commonly I see emailed printed by PAs for senior managers and neatly filed - a folder for urgent, a folder for "by tomorrow", a folder for signing, and so on. All the senior ...
Wouldn't a two term limit in NZ ensure exactly the kind of pendulum swings you're complaining about?
I think Collins is betting on it turning out to be leaked from within ACC. She will have had the list of accesses to the document within ACC for some days now.
Key can only initiate an inquiry if he is totally sure he knows what will come out and that it won't damage him. Do you think he's willing to take that risk under the circumstances? :) I am kinda pleased by the idea of Key being a follower of the great ...
mickysavage, I didn't mean to imply that I thought McCully was responsible, just that something that starts off looking like a cunningly crafted Machiavellian strategy and turns out to be a train wreck could cheerfully be described as McCully-esque :)
I think it's safe to assume there are multiple leakers, if you track back all the documents and facts that have come out so far it's pretty clear.
That probably overestimates Joyce, I gave up thinking this was some cunning crafted Machiavellian strategy a few days ago, now is just has a flashing "trainwreck" sign in my mind :) Now I write that… Murray McCully's name springs to mind :)
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