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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Edwards on Politics
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Frustrations of dealing with a ‘transparent’ government

ANALYSIS: In some ways, government has opened up but information flow is still tightly controlled.

Brent Edwards Wed, 10 Nov 2021

About four years after pledging to be the most transparent government ever, Labour is still struggling to live up to the rhetoric.

It is not as though it has not made some steps in opening up government machinations to greater public scrutiny. It routinely releases information about who

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Brent Edwards Wed, 10 Nov 2021
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