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Jane Clifton: The importance of Lady Collins

Judith Collins has come through the ACC leak scandal magnificently, but why were her colleagues so suspicious?

By Jane Clifton In Politics

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7th April, 2012
Ordinarily, leaks of information from government agencies are held to be a good thing – by pretty much everyone except the Government, which is typically embarrassed by them. In fact, the embarrassment of governments has become a positive incentive for those privy to useful information to tell all early and often. We greet whistle-blowers as heroes, and declare, “Sunlight’s the best disinfectant”, and “What have they got to hide?” – a far cry from the patrician days when Rob Muldoon tutted that folk shouldn’t worry about secret economic and fiscal data because voters “wouldn’t ...

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