James
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Via email: <[FYI request #29643 email]>
30 January 2025
Kia ora James
Official Information Act request dated 23 December 2024
We refer to your email dated 23 December 2024 requesting information under the
Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).
Request: On the 15th of October the TVNZ breakfast show's Jenny-May Clarkson
interviewed Hikoi organiser Eru Kapa Kingi.
1. Please provide the ful transcript of the off-air pre-show interview with Eru
Kapa Kingi and Hone Harawira.
2. Please detail who the interviewer was and the time and date the interview
was conducted.
3. Did TVNZ receive any emails concerning the Hikoi interview (for any reason)
from @Maori party or parliamentary services email address? Please DO NOT
disclose their email address.
This is relevant as questions have been raised by TVNZ's own Jack Tame on Q and A
relating to non-disclosure of Kapa Kingi's involvement in the Hikoi and potential use
of parliamentary and Māori party resources.
Response: Adopting the numbering above:
1. The request for a ful transcript is withheld on following grounds:
• Section 9(2)(b) of the Act: to protect information where the making
available of the information would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the
commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the
information;
• Section 9(2)(g) of the Act: to maintain the effective conduct of public
affairs through the free and frank expression of opinions by members of an
organisation in the course of their duty; and
• Section 9(2)(i) of the Act: to enable TVNZ to carry out, without prejudice or
disadvantage, commercial activities.
Information about TVNZ’s internal news and current affairs operations (including the
collection of source information for current affairs segments) is commercially
sensitive, and is withheld to enable our newsroom to operate free of influence and
without fear or favour, Release of information about how we produce our news and
current affairs content would put us at strategic disadvantage to our competitors in
the media industry, would mean we could not carry out free and frank editorial
discussions, and would mean we could not produce news and current affairs content
without disadvantage.
2. The interview was carried out on the afternoon of 14 October 2023 and the
interviewer was one of Breakfast’s producers (not a public facing role), Their
name has been withheld on the fol owing grounds:
• section 4(c) of the Act which requires the protection of official
information to the extent consistent with the public interest and the
preservation of personal privacy; and
• section 9(2)(a) which permits information to be withheld for the
protection of the privacy of natural persons.
3. No, TVNZ did not receive any emails concerning the Hikoi interview from
parliamentary services or Te Pāti Māori email addresses.
We trust this information assists. If you are dissatisfied with this response, section 28
of the Act sets out the circumstances in which you may make a complaint to the
Ombudsman in order to seek an investigation and review.
Yours sincerely,
Official Information Requests Team
TVNZ
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