Peter BoshierPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she will co-operate with the Ombudsman on the issue of whether to release the 33-page coalition document that she has so far refused to release. Ardern confirmed this afternoon at her post-Cabinet press conference that she had received a letter from Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier regarding the document. “I am willing and will absolutely co-operate with the Ombudsman.”She has been under pressure from the Opposition to release the document, which she describes as an unofficial “record of some of our [coalition] conversations”. Her refusal to release the document was now the subject of a complaint to the Office of the Ombudsman. Boshier told Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon programme today that he had read the document.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 03, 2017 23:26 UTC