Accountability Vs. Administrative Burden

No, you're quite right. And look, I have much of the respect and spans as a union. I mean, I probably wouldn't go as far as saying that we need to be exempt because there has to be a balance of accountability and there are some reasonable things to ask questions about. However, this case here took up in some schools a lot more time because it meant digging through board minutes of conversations and outlining policies and procedures that are publicly available in most cases. for the sake of somebody doing a bit of a research project and I think what it highlighted was the ease of somebody getting all of our email addresses and sending them all out as a mass. response and if you were to add up the hours from across the country in two and a half thousand schools then it's a huge response to help somebody with a university research project and also an OIA request I mean surely if you actually want information to help in the cause of tertiary education you'd simply ask