Opinion: Fixing the public service without forgetting the basics

03/04/2025

He Pōneketanga, column published in BusinessDesk on 3 April 2025.

In this final column I respond to the Government’s announcement that it will amend the Public Service Act 2020. I agree that the public service needs a reset: numbers have grown significantly since 2017 without a clear improvement in services, and where results have improved it is hard to scale them or explain them with evidence. I argue that the reform rightly aims at results rather than cuts, while cautioning that the fix should not lose sight of the basics.

Read the column: https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/opinion/fixing-the-public-service-without-forgetting-the-basics

Reference
Te Kawa, D. (2025, April 3). Fixing the public service without forgetting the basics. BusinessDesk. https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/opinion/fixing-the-public-service-without-forgetting-the-basics

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