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Weekly summary for Week Ending 6th Sept 2026.
Weekly summary for Week Ending 6th Sept 2026.
Since the last newsletter, the team have kept the admin work moving across OIA follow-ups, Crown/agency accountability work, member files, and records handling. Tracy/FARQ has been active on DPMC, Health NZ, Police, REA, Customs, MfE/EPA data-centre questions, Paradise Haulage, Rangitikei/Marton rates matters, and other member support files. a couple of us have been working through the on roadside drug testing, firearms review material, MBIE fuel-supply follow-up, Waitaki/Oamaru parking-meter material, Bryant/MPI issues, and making sure key threads are filed and followed up. Chris has mainly been supporting the working systems, including Codex/workbench problems, email handling between FARQ and 105, and sharing research material.
- The noticeboard has had a strong run of Review the Crown material: roadside drug testing
- Crown authority questions, council/rates records, food-water-soil accountability
- data centres
- firearms licensing
- superannuation
- and public-agency OIA handling.
The video library has also been kept active, with recent public videos on rates, public fees, WINZ, warrants, political accountability, health, technology, and wider public-interest topics. The most member-relevant recent items appear to be the Review the Crown updates, the “Proof Over Power” article, the roadside drug-testing work, and council/rates accountability posts.
Nigel Gray has sent material members should know about. The strongest items to point members toward are his roadside drug-testing material, the PHF Science/OIA work, gold royalties and public-resource questions, DOC/1080 and bird-testing issues, data-centre concerns, and his recent public-agency accountability posts.
Nigel has provided a steady stream of research that is now feeding into our OIA and public-review work, especially around roadside drug testing, public records, and government accountability. Kindly support him and us where you can.