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The Chief Ombudsman's point appears to be that public servants are human and they react as most humans would when a rottweiller with a digital recorder comes yapping. That is not, though, a reason for them to ignore the law - with special audio featu
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Click the NBR Radio box for on-demand special feature audio: Rob Hosking ponders how open our society has become.
New Zealand got a few reminders about the openness of the age we live in this week.
Reminders, that is, of the price and perils of that age – and that some gatekeepers are struggling
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