Simeon Brown
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343 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Simeon Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good morning, Mike.
Well, the government's responding to a Royal Commission, which heard from thousands of New Zealanders.
And we have been very clear in our response, particularly around issues of transparency of information.
And that's as much about responding to what happened, but about also being clear about the future is that.
When governments make key decisions in the future, which affect people's rights, people's businesses, their lives and their health, we need to have transparency of information.
We didn't have that.
And we're saying that needs to be core to any response in the future.
Well, we're responding as the government today.
We're putting in place a cabinet circular around transparency, any key decisions that
which affect people's rights and freedoms
impact business, impact the economy, and of course balance the health requirements in a pandemic, that key advice should be released within five days.
The crazy thing here is that we have only just had some of that advice only recently released, particularly in relation to the vaccine mandates for 12 to 17-year-olds.
And so those were big decisions that impacted people's lives, the people's health, the economy.
Ultimately, transparency should be
quarter any future response because governments must have the trust and confidence of the public in those responses.
Well, I wasn't in charge of the actual Royal Commission.
Well, I mean, I think ultimately those people should have fronted up.
Well, the Royal Commission ultimately made those decisions.
We set the commission up.
But those people should have fronted.
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