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State servant numbers: Why the Government wants to overhaul the public service (Opinion piece) (archive.ph)

submitted 1 week ago by terraborra@lemmy.nz to c/politics@lemmy.nz

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But it also created public sector boards (or “joint ventures”) where chief executives from various agencies meet and discuss issues and provide advice to a single Government minister.

If it sounds a bit wishy-washy that’s because it clearly is. Its stated goal was to tackle major underlying problems facing the country. How’s that working out for us?

I get that this is a right wing columnist and he’s paid to be anti, but come on. Companies always decry silos and that’s exactly what this was set up to overcome when dealing with “wicked” problems, of which NZ has many.

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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago

Doesn't matter. All that mattes is that they belong to a union and they must be replaced with non union employees.