Friday, 5 February 2021, 9:34 am
It’s not an anniversary that Radio New Zealand’s
board and management will want to celebrate but it was a
year ago to the day that they unveiled their new youth music
strategy only to see it crash and burn within a
week.
Like the proverbial canary down the mine, the
embarrassing high-level political implosion after RNZ’s
grand new music strategy was revealed at a staff meeting on
5 February 2020 contains warnings of what lies ahead if
Labour persists with its proposal to merge RNZ and TVNZ into
some as-yet undefined new media entity. Many of the same
The Chief Ombudsman has released investigation reports into LGOIMA practice and compliance at Buller District Council, Invercargill City Council, Porirua City Council and Tauranga City Council.
Source:Â Porirua City CouncilÂ
Porirua City Council has welcomed a report just published by the Office of the Ombudsman into the Councilâs official information practices.
Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier assessed the Councilâs performance across five areas: Leadership and Culture; Organisation structure, staffing and capability; Internal policies, procedures, resources and systems; Current practices; and Performance monitoring and leaning.
âPorirua City Councilâs open leadership impressed me,â said Mr Boshier in his report. âThe Councilâs culture of information release, and respect for the people of Porirua, was evident in its practice of actively engaging with diverse voices when making decisions that affect their community.
3 02 2021
Nathaporn (clipped from The Nation)
Mad monarchist conspiricist, royalist and lawyer Nathaporn Toprayoonis at it again. It is reported that he has submitted a petition to the Election Commission (EC) to dissolve the Move Forward Partyas he considers the party has engaged in “actions he deems hostile to democracy with the king as head of state.”
Nathaporn is a former advisor to the Chief Ombudsman and has previously acted as a lawyer for the People’s Alliance for Democracy, the Thai Patriots Network and other right-wing royalist groups.
In his new complaint, Nathaporn reflects the views of the establishment, so we’d guess that his petition might get some traction.