On the other side of the country, the dramas about the contacts between the former Head of the Department of Health and Brian Burke took another turn yesterday when the Minister released more than 300 pages of internal Health Department documents relating to the affair.
Here's how to offside a Freedom of Information applicant: the documents were given to the media 3 hours before they were released to the Opposition, who had made the application and paid $300 as a deposit!
See our earlier blog for some background.
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