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Rachal Mackay's emails on 'anti-vaccine sentiment' and 'digital security' in the education sector

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From: Erika Whittome

Dear Health New Zealand,

I am requesting Rachel Mackay's 2021 specific emails based on 7 September 2021 dated
minutes of the "Covid-19 Vaccine Immunisation Program Steering Group"
(page 158 onwards from https://fyi.org.nz/request/15656/respons...)

The minutes dated 7 Sept 2021 of the "Covid-19 Vaccine Immunisation Program Steering Group" on page 161 say:

"Update on school-based vaccinations (Rachel Mackay)
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As of today, we have communicated with the Ministry of Education and Tertiary Institutions that employees are now eligible for priority to be vaccinated.
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-It is noted there are some difficulties with anti-vaccine sentiment in this environment. The Ministry of Health is meeting with the digital security team to review the security settings."

Would you please share:
1. All the 2021 emails from Rachel Mackay that contain the following keywords/phrases:
digital,
digital security,
security,
anti-vaccine,
antivaccine-sentiment,
sentiment
The date range is for 2021. If there are too many, I am happy to narrow the date scope based on the start and end dates you locate in your keyword search.

2. Please include any related or attached memos, minutes, work orders, IT change control forms, IT Requests, IT firewall changes, texts, emails and correspondence to external providers, contractors, consultations, network security etc around the above

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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