30 July 2024
Aaron Goodwin
[FYI request #27543 email]
Ref: PMO OIA 007-2024-25
Dear Aaron Goodwin
Official Information Act request: Material regarding The Platform radio station
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request, received on 10 July 2024.
You requested:
“I am seeking publication, by way of reply to this formal OIA request, all text, email, and
other written communication between the Prime Minister, his media team, his advisors,
and individual members of the Cabinet regarding appearances and invitations to
appear on the radio station 'The Platform.' Additionally, I request the publication of all
communications in which Sean Plunket, the host of 'The Platform,' is specifically
mentioned or discussed with regard to his role at 'The Platform.'
This request pertains to communications from the time the current government was
sworn in until the present date.”
On 23 July you refined the request to specifically exclude correspondence between the
Prime Minister and members of the public and to include written communications between
the Prime Minister and:
• officials
• his staff and advisors
• Cabinet Ministers, and
• MPs.
I can advise that no written communications have been exchanged between the Prime
Minister and any of the parties listed above; therefore, I am refusing your request under
section 18 (e) of the Act as the document alleged to contain the information requested does
not exist.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
Yours sincerely
Cameron Burrows
Chief of Staff