EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAMBERS
25 May 2022
Unmesh Shah
[FYI request #19242 email]
Ref: OIA-2021/22-1302
Tēnā koe Unmesh Shah
Official Information Act request:[Shah] Events for Platinum Jubilee
Thank you for your Of icial Information Act request received on 29 April 2022. You
requested:
Dear Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, It has been two months
and no new information about the Jubilee celebrations in New Zealand has
been released. In a reply to an earlier FYI request, it was said that, apart from
the tree planting and beacon lighting, there wil be other events too in
Aotearoa celebrating the Platinum Jubilee. What events have been planned?
Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom have all announced a series of
events that will take place during the Jubilee weekend in June, and throughout
the Platinum Jubilee year. New Zealand should also make public the events
that wil take place in the country throughout the Jubilee year, celebrating the
Queen's seventy years of service to Aotearoa New Zealand. When wil the
New Zealand Platinum Jubilee programme be unveiled?
Events such as parades, exhibitions, concerts, il uminations, renaming places
after Her Majesty, are among the many options through which we can mark
this important milestone. What options are being considered?
Thank you for your continued interest in the planning for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
As previously advised, the government has committed $1 mil ion to planting native
trees across New Zealand to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. As part of this legacy project, the Department of
Conservation, Trees that Count and Tapu o Tane wil assist community groups, iwi and
private landowners to plant 100,000 native trees at 15 exceptional native restoration
sites across New Zealand. The planting programme echoes the Queen’s Green
Canopy scheme developed in the United Kingdom for the Platinum Jubilee
celebrations, but specifies that New Zealand’s native species wil be eco-sourced and
planted.
On 16 May 2022, the Chief Justice, Dame Helen Winkelmann, Hon Kiritapu Al en and
Joris de Bres of Project Crimson, launched the project by planting a kauri in the
grounds of Government House in Wellington. You can read more about the event
here
and find out more about the project and the proposed locations
here.
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CABINET OFFICE, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, WELLINGTON 6011, NEW ZEALAND
Telephone: +64 (4) 830 5010. Email: [email address]
www.dpmc.govt.nz
There wil be announcements in the very near future about further ways in which New
Zealand wil mark this significant celebration.
Accordingly, I decline the remainder of your request under section 18(d) of the Act, on
the basis that the information requested is or wil be soon publicly available, and under
section 9(2)f(iv), to maintain the constitutional conventions for the time being which
protect the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers of the Crown and officials.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
We do not intend to publish this response on the Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet’s website.
Nāku noa, nā
Michael Webster
Clerk of the Executive Council