New Zealand. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Date: 25 Feb 2000

From: Government House oral history project Stage II

By: Walker, Joseph James, 1941-2009

Reference: OHInt-0642/2

Description: Joe Walker was born in Opunake in 1941. Describes being brought up by his mother and grandfather until his mother remarried Hector Walker from Rotoma, Fiji. Mentions his birth father. Talks about his brother, three sisters and a half brother. Describes education at Opunake Primary and High Schools. Recalls enjoying academic work and sport. Talks about becoming Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) in the school cadets. Describes links with Te Atiawa and Ngati Ruahine. Explains an awakening to being Maori while in the Army. Mentions have done Maori language at Victoria University, joining the hikoi and studying the Treaty of Waitangi with Donna Awatere. Mentions he was responsible for programmes including Maori at APEC. Describes joining the Army and explains his progression through the ranks. Discusses becoming professional, becoming a leader and learning to take risks. Discusses fighting in Vietnam and attitudes to Vietnamese veterans. Mentions marrying Patsy McGowan in 1963 and her support of his life in the Army. Mentions he was Brigadier Commander at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. Mentions his association with the SAS and describes studying counter terrorism in Great Britain. Discusses resigning from the military in 1990 after thirty years' service. Describes his appointment as Comptroller of Government House in 1990. Mentions organising the changeover from Sir Paul Reeves as Governor General to Dame Catherine Tizard. Discusses the preparation of a five year plan for the Governor General. Discusses changing the culture of the role of Governor General from British to New Zealand and the need for the role to be simple and relevant to New Zealand while maintaining quality. Describes Sir Paul and Lady Reeves and functions held for the Maori community. Comments on the informal tone of Dame Catherine Tizard while maintaining her position as representative of the head of state. Describes how he put New Zealand art on the walls. Describes the position of Comptroller as Operations Manager with the Chief Secretary's position that of the Chief Executive. Mentions Ken Richardson. Discusses the relationship between the military and the Governor-General and the role of the aides de camp. Mentions that Government House had come under the the Department of Internal Affairs but now comes under the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Mentions an organisational review which structured out the office of Comptroller. Discusses the Royal Family and a number of overseas visitors including the Queen of the Netherlands, King of Malaysia, Sultans of Bahrain, Iraq and Brunei, Presidents of Croatia, Chile, Ireland and Germany and President Mandela. Mentions the Queen's visit in 1995 and the CHOGM meeting. Discusses the relationship of the Governor-General and Jim Bolger . Mentions a security review at Government House and redevelopment of the gardens. Talks about the 25th anniversary of Robert Sisson Stretch as butler. Describes seeing Sir Michael Hardie Boys into office as Governor-General before leaving the job. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3409.

Date: 28 Sep 1992 to 11 Nov 1992

From: Ministry of External Relations and Trade 50th anniversary oral history project

By: Laking, George Robert (Sir), 1912-2008

Reference: OHInt-0732-03

Description: Interview with George Laking, born in Onehunga in 1912. This material was also covered in an interview in 1984 for the NZOHA Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oral History Project. Recalls the early history of the Department of External Affairs, its early close association with the Prime Minister's Department, and its relationship with other government agencies during and after World War Two. Comments that the department had a focus on defence and security issues as a result of its close association with the Prime Minister's Department, but that the focus gradually shifted to economic issues. Talks about the involvement of prime ministers Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, Sid Holland and Keith Holyoake in the appointment of key diplomats and their interest in foreign affairs. Recalls the expansion of overseas posts in the 1950s including Ottawa, Paris, Bonn and Japan. Refers to the effect of the Vietnam war on attitudes within New Zealand regarding foreign policy matters. Comments on the increased emphasis on environmental, political and security issues. Refers to the political view after the War that trade commissioners were the only overseas representation needed by New Zealand and the time it took for integration of diplomatic and trade personnel. Discusses his involvement with Keith Holyoake's mission to London in 1957 and changes in trade relations with Britain. Mentions Walter Nash's visit to Europe in 1960 and New Zealand's need for permanent representation in countries of the European Common Market. Discusses changes in New Zealand's involvement in Asia and Southeast Asia in the 1950s, the United Nations intervention in Korea, the establishment of SEATO (South East Asian Treaty Organisation), the confrontation with Indonesia in 1964, and the war in Vietnam. Refers to the change in attitude to China towards the end of the 1960s, leading to the recognition of China in 1972. Comments on the establishment of the ANZUS Treaty in 1951. Refers to the "so-called nuclear debate" and its effect on the Ministry's work. Talks about relations between successive New Zealand and Australian Prime Ministers from the 1940s, and the growing sense of interdependence between the two countries. Mentions the Canberra Pact (1944), the establishment of the South Pacific Commission in 1947, and New Zealand's relationships with Pacific island territories. Mentions attending the last League of Nations meeting in Geneva in 1946, the United Nations Visiting Mission to Western Samoa, and his role in explaining the New Zealand government's position on self-government for Niue, Cook Islands and Tokelau to the United Nations. Refers to New Zealand's role in decolonisation after World War 2 through the United Nations and the UN Trusteeship Council. Contents: Printed abstract accompanied by lists of names mentioned on each tape Interviewer(s) - Bruce Brown Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016266 - OHC-016270 Quantity: 5 C64 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 7 interview(s). 5.07 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5912, OHDL-000072. Search dates: 1992

Date: 1976

From: New Zealand National Party: Sound and video recording collection

Reference: OHInt-0226/75

Description: Quantity: 1 videocassette(s). 1 event(s).

Date: 1982-1989

By: Sutch, Helen, 1945-

Reference: ATL-Group-00679

Description: Comprises papers relating to Sutch's work with the OECD, the Prime Minister's Department and the Department of Labour (ca 1982-1989). Also includes electronic file relating to an academic paper by Keith Ovenden. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 27 box(es) (295 folders). 31 kilobyte(s). 6.60 Linear Metres. 2 C60 cassette(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and an electronic document Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Serials Collection - OWL information Issues No 1-3, Jul-Oct 1986.

Date: 2003

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-9029-075

Description: Correspondence with Anne Salmond, Witi Ihimaera and Cabinet Honours Committee concerning a Civil Honours list award for Geoffrey Walker Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Facebook (Firm); Scoop (Firm); Twitter Inc (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025696

Description: The Speaker of Parliament, David Carter, allows two unidentified agents to rifle a 'top secret' box of a parliamentarian's possessions containing 'the usual crap MPs drop and leave behind', mainly of an embarrassing personal nature, and that they can 'take what you want'. One of them has found a list titled 'Movements and phone calls of journalists'. The Speaker has not checked the identities of the two 'snoops'. Accompanying note from cartoonist states: 'There seem to have been no end of 'accidents' regarding Andrea Vance's phone records. Now the Speaker is apologising. Cartoon depicts The Speaker David Carter and two generic investigators.' Parliament Speaker David Carter confirmed on 30July 2013 that three months of phone records detailing calls between Fairfax journalist Andrea Vance and people within the parliamentary precinct were handed over to a ministerial inquiry into the unauthorised leak of a report on the GCSB. The release of the information to the inquiry was unacceptable, Carter said, in his apology to Andrea Vance. Published on Martin Doyle's cartoon Facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Doyle/607865899238901?ref=hl) and Twitter (Twitter@Mart_cartoons) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Herald on Sunday (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025687

Description: A man is shown being screened through a body scanner under the inspection of 'The State'. The caption reads 'The Government's idea of a media communications booth'. Following the David Henry Inquiry's investigations into the Prime Minister's Department activities over the Andrea Vance and Peter Dunne affair, the government was showing itself to be increasingly suspicious of even the tame journalists of the Press Gallery. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025685

Description: Captioned 'Privacy matters', an average citizen hears the telephone ringing and says 'I think I can hear an alarm bell ringing...'. The telephone is labelled 'Henry inquiry'. David Henry was commissioned in April 2013 to conduct an inquiry into the role of the Prime Minister's Department into the leaking of the contents of the Kitteridge report on the GCSB between Andrea Vance and Peter Dunne. In August the Henry Inquiry received the relevant e-mails and telephone logs, confirming that the Department had been spying on Vance and Dunne, despite their status as Gallery journalist and Minister. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Timaru herald (Newspaper); Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025691

Description: The chair of an anonymous local 'Glee Club' tells the members that the club expelled the secretary, since by taking notes, that made her a journalist and thus a subversive. The resulting lack of minutes was solved by obtaining a copy from the government's spying agency. A GCSB tranmitter and microphone are shown underneath the meeting table. The GCSB Amendment Bill of 2013 made spying on New Zealand citizens legal. At the same time investigations into the leaking of information by certain journalists took on the character of a witch hunt. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025789

Description: The Prime Minister, John Key, offers a cup of tea. There is a general stampede, from the likes of Fonterra, Groser, Parliamentary Services and others, away from the offer. Since the affair of the cup of tea with John Banks before the election in 2011 and the subsequent fallout, there was a general wariness by many people and organisations to be involved with Key's informal meetings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0025871

Description: The Prime Minister, John Key, hides safely under cover while holding up a dummy labelled 'Officials' over the sand bags. The dummy is being riddled with bullets; a newspaper headline refers to 'Media spying'. In August 2013, the Henry Inquiry, investigating the actions of the Parliamentary Service over his inquiry into the leaking of the Kitteridge report to the journalist Andrea Vance, found that the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, Wayne Eagleson, had gained access to all of Vance's records. The Prime Minister, John Key, denied all knowledge of his Department's actions, leaving his officials to take the blame. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0026776

Description: Two Wellington civil servants react to a newspaper headline saying 'Govt turns down compo for Pike River families'. One says 'That's terrible.' The other, carrying a satchel indicating that he works for 'Govt PR', agrees: 'Sure is. He missed a great photo op!' On 14 November 2014 the National government decided that there would be no government compensation paid to the families of the 29 men who died in the Pike River Mine disaster of 2011. This was a widely unpopular decision. The prime minister's knack of manipulation of the media for photo opportunities in favourable publicity events seemed to have deserted him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023036

Description: Shows two men chatting on their way to the rugby (Canterbury colours). One is talking about the Kim Dotcom affair and the news that the GCSB (New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau) has been accused of spying on Kim Dotcom because they apparently were ignorant of the fact that Dotcom had residency and the GCSB cannot spy on New Zealand citizens. The whole conversation consists of acronyms. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2000-2001

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7118-040

Description: Correspondence and other papers relating to Kidman's project to preserve Lauris Edmond's house for a writer-in-residence house for New Zealand and French writers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 13 Aug 1957- 16 Oct 1981

From: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2483-115

Description: Outward correspondence includes: New Zealand Composers Foundation (2 letters, 16 Oct 1981); New Zealand. Department of Inland Revenue (2 letters, 17 Jul-1 Dec 1959); New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs (21 Oct 1960); New Zealand. Department of Maori Affairs (27 Sep 1976); New Zealand Maori Theatre Trust (1967?); New Zealand. Minister for the Environment (27 Feb 1976); New Zealand. Minister of Broadcasting (23 Feb 1980); New Zealand. Minister of Internal Affairs ([Nov 1973?]); New Zealand. Minister of Police (10 Dec 1975); New Zealand. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (9 Nov 1974); New Zealand. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (24 May 1976 - Enclosed: Letter from Douglas Lilburn to President Park Chung-hee, Korea); New Zealand. Ministry of Internal Affairs (2 letters, 20 Sep-12 Oct 1977); New Zealand Players (3 letters, 13 Aug 1957-12 Mar 1958); New Zealand. Prime Minister (15 Mar 1969 - Enclosed: Letter from Douglas Lilburn to the Ambassador for Korea, 4 Mar 1969; Northern Television (20 Jul 1972); Novello and Company Ltd (16 Apr 1975). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs