<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Philip<div><br><div><div>On Sep 17, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Philip Sheppard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="640232614-17092009">Council should bear
in mind that there is sometimes an inherent conflict between transparency and
freedom to dialogue.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="640232614-17092009">For an individual,
or small business there is likely to be no such
conflict.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="640232614-17092009">For an employee of a
publicly quoted company or other organisation of reputation, there is a high
likelihood of this conflict.</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>In some situations, not others.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="640232614-17092009">Typically an
employee of such a company in the knowledge their comments may be publically
archived in oral or written form will be constrained in what they are able to
say by internal guidelines or practise. These guidelines will typically be
established to protect the corporation from legal suit, to protect reputation
or to protect the share price.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="640232614-17092009">Given the choice of
continual checking with in-house legal counsel and silence, they may choose
silence.</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Legal suit? Share prices? What sort of complaint session do you have in mind here? Adrian described it as people saying stuff like</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Sep 16, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Adrian Kinderis wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> I know the registrars for example would say that they are a little sick and tired of being pigeonholed simply because they have commercial interests. I'm sure other groups would have pet hates too.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></span></blockquote>Is this really the sort of topic that would be likely to give rise to legal action or affect your share price? </div><div><br></div><div>Remind me again how this exercise is going to promote group cohesion and effectiveness...? </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="640232614-17092009">If therefore Council
has an ambition to have a frank exchange of views, separate from its central
role of policy development, it should bear in mind the conflict that some
Council members may be under through no fault of their own other than their
choice of employer.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="640232614-17092009">So expression of
outrage and calls of "Vive la transparence" may make good rhetoric but will lead
to poorer dialogue.</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I'm fascinated that you consider transparency and accountability to be just disposable rhetoric. And that you're so shy about expressing your feelings, who knew?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>