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Joss J. made this Official Information request to Clare Curran
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From: Joss J.
Dear Clare Curran,
This OIA request relates to your Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media portfolio.
1. Please supply me with all official information that the Minister holds relating to the TVNZ Archive Collection.
2. Please supply me with all official information that the Minister holds relating to the monetisation, sale or licensing of TVNZ content.
3. Please supply me with all official information that the Minister holds relating to Official Information Act requests made to TVNZ that have subsequently come before the Minister. This may include - but is not limited to - briefings you have received or correspondence you have had with TVNZ regarding OIA requests.
4. Please supply me with all documents where you direct, advise, brief, or articulate your expectations of TVNZ in relation to how the broadcaster is to respond to Official Information Act requests.
Yours faithfully,
Joss J.
From: C Curran (MIN)
Clare Curran
Thank you for contacting the Office of Hon Clare Curran MP, Minister of
Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media, Minister for Government
Digital Services, Associate Minister for ACC and Associate Minister of
State Services (Open Government). Your correspondence has been received
and the contents noted.
Please be aware that our office receives a high volume of correspondence.
If your email falls within the portfolios listed above, we will endeavour
to respond to you in a timely manner. If the subject of your email falls
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Zealand
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From: C Curran (MIN)
Clare Curran
Dear Mr J
On behalf of Hon Clare Curran, Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media, please see attached.
Kind regards
Office of Hon Clare Curran
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Joss J. left an annotation ()
Hi Luke;
Quite clearly TVNZ do not want to respond appropriately to previous OIA requests (see https://fyi.org.nz/request/6991-tvnz-arc... and https://fyi.org.nz/request/7082-tvnz-arc... and https://fyi.org.nz/request/6829-tvnz-arc...) .. Are we really to believe that apart from a single service agreement, TVNZ holds no official information regarding discussions with Nga Taonga between 2013-2017 .. even though they say "discussions will continue" .. not even a single meeting note?
So the point of #3 and #4 is to see what OIAs are coming before the Minister and to see what directions (if any) are being given by her.
From: C Curran (MIN)
Clare Curran
Dear Joss J
On behalf of Hon Clare Curran, Minister of Broadcasting, Communications,
Digital Media and Government Digital Services, Associate Minister of State
Services (Open Government) and ACC, please see attached response to your
Official Information Act Request of 22 February 2018.
Kind regards
Office of Hon Clare Curran
Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media, Government
Digital Services
Associate Minister of State Services (Open Government) and ACC
Room 4.5L Executive Wing | Private Bag 18 888 |Parliament Buildings |
Wellington 6160
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From: Joss J.
Dear C Curran (MIN),
Thank you for your response. I am pleased to see that you are aware of the lack of official information held by TVNZ relating to Nga Taonga and the TVNZ Archive collection - even though discussions have apparently been ongoing between the two agencies for some time.
In response to your point #3. Yes, please supply ALL information as per my original request, rather than just one email. My original request was: "Please supply me with all official information that the Minister holds relating to Official Information Act requests made to TVNZ that have subsequently come before the Minister. This may include - but is not limited to - briefings you have received or correspondence you have had with TVNZ regarding OIA requests." I'm assuming this won't take another 20 days as my original request hasn't been modified.
Can I also just ask - is there any other official information that inadvertently has not been released (as I'm aware there was a change.org petition relating to the TVNZ Archive collection and NZ On Screen that was addressed to yourself and the Prime Minister).
Yours sincerely,
Joss J.
From: C Curran (MIN)
Clare Curran
Dear Joss J
Thank you for your email regarding your Official Information Act request of 22 February. We will action these points immediately and get back to you as soon as possible.
Kind regards
Office of Hon Clare Curran
Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media, Government Digital Services
Associate Minister of State Services (Open Government) and ACC
Room 4.5L Executive Wing | Private Bag 18 888 |Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160
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From: Joss J.
Dear C Curran (MIN),
Sorry I don't want to be a nuisance, but I saw today that your office very quickly (within a day-or-so) released the txt messages between yourself and Carol Hirschfeld requested under an OIA request from Stuff.
So I'm just wondering how the response to my OIA request is going (submitted 22 Feb 2018)? In response to my restating the original request, your office said last week that "we will action these points immediately". I know it's a short week, but it would be good to hear from you soonish.
Yours sincerely,
Joss J.
From: C Curran (MIN)
Clare Curran
Dear Joss J
On behalf of Hon Clare Curran, Minister of Broadcasting, Communications,
Digital Media and Government Digital Services, Associate Minister of State
Services (Open Government) and ACC, please see attached correspondence.
Kind regards
Office of Hon Clare Curran
Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media, Government
Digital Services
Associate Minister of State Services (Open Government) and ACC
Room 4.5L Executive Wing | Private Bag 18 888 |Parliament Buildings |
Wellington 6160
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Luke C left an annotation ()
I'm left wondering if the requests referred to in the second paragraph of the letter are essentially Privacy Act requests, asking for private information held by TVNZ about persons.
If this is the case, TVNZ should probably not be sharing that private information with the Minister.
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Luke C left an annotation ()
Joss,
What is the rationale behind paragraphs 3 and 4?
Luke
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