Appendix 2

From: Wayne Eagleson (MIN)

To: david@farrar.com; s9(2)(a) (MIN)
Subject: RE: Sir Tim Berner-Lees
Date: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:00:26 AM

Hi David,
 
Colin has rung me on this and we have pencilled in 3:15pm that day, with the thinking that we
would invite Ministers to that discussion.
 

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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:26 AM

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To: Wayne Eagleson (MIN); s9(2)(a) (MIN)
Subject: Sir Tim Berner-Lees

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Hi guys – happy new year.
 

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Just a heads up that Sir Tim Berner-Lees, who invented the World Wide Web and is a global
heavyweight in the science and technology area, is in Wellington on Wed 30 Jan, and InternetNZ
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who are hosting him along with Google and the Govt Chief Info Officer are trying to arrange
some meetings with Ministers. I think the CIO (Colin Macdonald) will be making the formal
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Not sure if John is in Wellington that day, but if he is and the schedule has any flexibility a
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innovation. It isn’t 100% confirmed but it looks like he’ll be meeting Gillard two days later on the
Friday.
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The draft schedule for him for Wed 30th is:
 
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9am Te Papa Marae – Powhiri Welcome for TBL

10.30amWeta Workshop Tour
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1pm Lunch with Members of Parliament
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430pm Break
5pm Public Lecture
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7pm Cocktail event

 
I’m told by the organisers that if the PM was keen to meet, they could move stuff around such as
the tour of Weta if morning suited better.
 
Hope you’ve both had a good break. I’m still in the South Island at Lake Brunner trying to burn
off all the Xmas dinners. I did 21 kms on foot yesterday!
 
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David Farrar
Director, Curia Market Research Ltd, www.curia.co.nz
 Director, .Domain Name Commission Ltd, www.dnc.org.nz
Convenor, InternetNZ Policy Advisory Group, www.internetnz.net.nz
Editor, Kiwiblog, www.kiwiblog.co.nz
  
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 From: David Farrar
To: Wayne Eagleson (MIN)
Subject: RE: Staff Changes in the Prime Minister"s Office
Date: Monday, 22 April 2013 10:18:13 AM

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From: Wayne Eagleson (MIN) [mailto:Wayne.Eagleson@parliament.govt.nz]
Sent: Monday, 22 April 2013 10:08 a.m.

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To: David Farrar
Subject: FW: Staff Changes in the Prime Minister's Office
 

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From: Wayne Eagleson (MIN)
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 9:12 AM

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To: #Office of Rt Hon. John Key; #Press All; #Advisors All; #SPS All; National MPs; National
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Subject: Staff Changes in the Prime Minister's Office
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Morning All,
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This is to advise that we are making a couple of changes to staffing in the office, effective
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immediately.
 
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Kevin Taylor is leaving his current role as Chief Press Secretary to take up a new role as Principal
Communications Advisor to the Prime Minister. Kelly McAra will be replacing Kevin as Chief Press
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Secretary.
 
As many of you will be aware, Kevin has been Chief Press Secretary to the Prime Minister since
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the 2008 election, and held the same role in Opposition from November 2006. We are fortunate
to be able to use Kevin’s experience in this new role which will involve whole of government
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communications oversight and planning, announcement scheduling  as well as providing

communications advice to the Prime Minister. In his new role Kevin will be picking up the whole
of government communications work that Paula Oliver had previously done. This in turn will
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allow Paula to fully focus on her policy responsibilities.

 
I want to welcome Kelly to her new role as Chief Press Secretary. Kelly has worked in our Media
team since the 2011 election, and prior to that did both press secretary and advisory work in a
number of offices, most notably Gerry Brownlee’s where she made a real contribution on
Christchurch earthquake communications.
 
These changes leave a Press Secretary vacancy, and Kelly and I will be working to fill that over
the coming weeks.
 
 I am sure that everyone joins with me to offer congratulations to both Kevin and Kelly on their
new roles and to wish them well for the future.
 
Regards, Wayne
 
Wayne Eagleson
Chief of Staff
Office of the Prime Minister
Ph: 64 4 817-9365 or s9(2)(a)

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 From: David Farrar
To: Wayne Eagleson (MIN); s9(2)(a)
s9(2)(a)
Subject: Ministers and the public service
Date: Thursday, 23 May 2013 2:26:13 PM

Hi all,
 
In June, I’m part of a panel at a workshop put together by the Institute of Public Administration
for new CEOs and 2nd level managers in the public service.

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The panel is looking specifically at the policy process with regards to the role of ministerial

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advisors (and lobbyists) and their interactions with Departments. One of the other panellists is
MBIE CEO David Smol.

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I thought this might be a good opportunity to communicate in an unofficial sense any issues

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around when agencies do stupid stuff, and to be able to educate them on some basic stuff
around keeping Ministers (and advisors on their behalf) happy.

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If any of you have any good examples or horror stories that I can use (in confidence and without
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attribution), feel free to let me know. I’m meaning things like you make a phone call to an official

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and they immediately e-mail to someone your exact words (which becomes OIAable) rather than
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merely communicating your general sentiment. Or learning about an issue through the TV news.
 
Basically what I want to get across to them is what they need to be doing, to keep Advisors and
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Ministers happy. It’s all of course fairly common sense, but a few examples are often more
effective than just talking in theory.
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And no I don’t know why they invited me to be on the panel! I guess they just thought I could be
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more direct than someone currently working in the role.

 
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 From: David Farrar
To: Kevin Taylor
Subject: 10th birthday invitation
Date: Thursday, 8 August 2013 9:29:53 AM

Dear Kevin

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Kiwiblog has just turned 10 years old, and is on its way to becoming a moody
teenager. In its first ten years Kiwiblog has had over 22 million visits and almost 45

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million page views. There have been almost 30,000 posts on 5,000 different
topics, and over one million comments made.

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mischief has hopefully been achieved from time to time. To celebrate we are
having a 10th birthday party on Tuesday the 27th of August.
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Thanks to our generous sponsors of Kensington Swan, Ideas Shop, Independent
Liquor and Wineseeker you’ll be able to try some special Kiwiblog label wine,
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and/or also a special Kiwiblog RTD if you are adventurous, plus a selection of
beers and canapés.
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If you can make it along on Tuesday 27th, just RSVP to gcsb@kiwiblog.co.nz. I

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thought it would save the GCSB the time and bother of having to intercept our e-
mails if we send the replies to them directly!
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 From: Wayne Eagleson
To: David Farrar
Subject: RE: Catch Up
Date: Tuesday, 23 September 2014 6:02:01 PM

Absolutely David, will get in touch in the next couple of days to set something up.
 
Cheers, Wayne
 

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From: David Farrar [mailto:david@farrar.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:05 AM
To: Wayne Eagleson
Subject: Catch Up

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Not urgent, but when you have some spare time can I pop in for a catch up. Mainly want to have
a chat about the flag referendum. I’ve already started assembling a multi-party group of activists
to spearhead a campaign for change, and keen to get some idea of likely timing and process

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before we get too advanced with our planning.
 
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