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Bobby calves, the information age, and damming the un-dammable

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

Fri, 04 Dec 2015

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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