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Violations of OIA

Andrew Li made this Official Information request to Nanaia Mahuta

Response to this request is long overdue. By law Nanaia Mahuta should have responded by now (details and exceptions). The requester can complain to the Ombudsman.

From: Andrew Li

Dear Nanaia Mahuta,

On April 23 I made an incredibly simple request in regards statements issued by MFAT in support of zionist terror attacks on the Palestinian people on the MFAT twitter.

After initial entirely unjustified but potentially legal delays, your office illegally delayed its response still further, after the initial 20 working day period where it could have been legal, and then not even meeting the new (illegal) deadline before sending a 'response' where a number of entirely unjustified redactions were made- https://fyi.org.nz/request/19199/respons...

Most grotesquely, the responsible parties even falsely claimed that PUBLIC SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS needed to be redacted under section 6a- claiming that screenshots of PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS could "prejudice the security or defence of New Zealand or the international relations of the Government of New Zealand".

I will of course be following up your criminal violations of the OIA with the Ombudsman. Separately, as a new request, I am seeking the communications involved in the decision to make these flagrantly illegal redactions on page 1 through page 7 of your (illegally late) response.

Yours faithfully,
Andrew Li

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From: N Mahuta (MIN)
Nanaia Mahuta

Thank you for contacting the office of Hon Nanaia Mahuta, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Minister of Local Government, and Associate Minister for
Mâori Development.

 

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If your message is for Minister Mahuta’s advice, or if you have copied
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might be possible,

·       If you have made a request for official information, then this
will be managed in accordance with the provisions of the Official
Information Act 1982, which may include transfer to a more relevant
Minister or agency,

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be managed in accordance with the principles of the Privacy Act 1993,
which may include transfer to a more relevant Minister or agency,

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biography<https://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/bio...> or
recent statements<https://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/hon...>.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

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Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Minister of Local Government |
Associate Minister for Mâori
Development

DDI: 04 817 8711

Private Bag 18041, Parliament
Buildings, Wellington 6160, New
Zealand

 

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constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary would list:
date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the
meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the
Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will
be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet
with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be
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From: Andrew Li

Dear Nanaia Mahuta,

You have failed to respond to this request and have not provided any justification for it to be extended.

Regards,
Andrew Li

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From: N Mahuta (MIN)
Nanaia Mahuta

Tçnâ koe,

On behalf of Hon Nanaia Mahuta, thank you for your email.  Please accept
this as acknowledgement that your email has been received by my office.

While the Minister considers all correspondence to be important, and all
messages are carefully read and considered, it is not always possible to
personally reply to all emails.  As such, the following guidelines apply:

·        Invitations and meeting requests will be processed as soon as
possible and a staff member will be in contact with you in due course 

·        All media queries will be responded to by a staff member 

·        Requests for official information will be managed in accordance
with the provisions of the Official Information Act 1982, which may
include transfer to a more relevant Minister or agency 

·         If your email falls outside of the Minister’s portfolio
responsibilities, expresses a personal view, or is copied to multiple
Members of Parliament, then your opinion will be noted and your
correspondence may be transferred to another office, or there may be no
further response to you
Thank you for the taking the time to write.
Nga mihi,

 

Office of Hon Nanaia Mahuta
Minister of Foreign Affairs | Minister of Local Government | Associate
Minister for Mâori Development

DDI: 04 817 8711

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

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