A couple of nights ago, shortly after the Minister and Treasury finally released the suite of texts between Willis and Rennie, ZB featured interviewer Heather du Plessis-Allan talking to Herald journalist Jenee Tibshraeny (who has been over the Orr/Quigley/Willis saga issue from day one). There wasn’t anything concrete that was new in the conversation but … Continue reading Outstanding questions| croaking cassandra
Yes, Orr/Quigley/Willis again. For everyone’s sake now – well, perhaps except her own – one can only wish that the Minister of Finance would finally decide, more than six months on, to make a full and complete disclosure of what actually went on around the exit of Orr and the aftermath. Instead, the snippet by … Continue reading Tangled webs| croaking cassandra
It isn’t impossible that you, readers, are getting tired of the still-unfolding Orr/Quigley/Willis saga. You wouldn’t be alone in that. I have many more intrinsically interesting things to do (spent yesterday writing a review of new academic history of US banking supervision from 1798 to 1980, and am reading a history of little-known sovereign borrowing … Continue reading Another snippet| croaking cassandra
It was six months ago this afternoon that the resignation of the Governor of the Reserve Bank was announced, and with it the tangled and ongoing web of deception and obstruction. I wasn’t planning to write anything today, but information continues to seep out – occasionally proactively, sometimes involuntarily, and sometimes (apparently) through journalists’ sources. … Continue reading Six months today| croaking cassandra
I think my post yesterday made a pretty conclusive case that the Minister of Finance had been fully part of the choice to deliberately mislead New Zealanders about what went on with the resignation of Adrian Orr. It might, initially, have been a fairly passive involvement re the proposed comms lines – when she, as … Continue reading Willis and the Reserve Bank Board and Governor| croaking cassandra
I had an OIA response yesterday from the Reserve Bank. There is more obstructionism, so a letter will be going off to the Ombudsman this morning, but there was also some interesting information released. A while ago the Bank’s Board started publishing proactively minutes (carefully crafted ones) of its meetings. It seemed like (and was) … Continue reading One more bit in the timeline| croaking cassandra
That was the Minister of Finance’s chief press secretary responding on behalf of the Minister to an inquiry from Stuff journalists shortly after Neil Quigley’s ill-starred press confere…| croaking cassandra
