The future of Māori health is here: The 2022 Aotearoa New Zealand health reforms (2022) In this 2022 comment for The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Sarah Lovell, Lindsey Te Ata o Tū MacDonald, Kaaren Mathias and I consider the launch of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, on 1…

Raising waka, and not just yachts (2020) In this 2020 chapter for the Public Service Association’s Progressive Thinking series, Amohia Boulton and I argue that COVID-19 exposed how underprepared Aotearoa, and the world, was to detect and respond to emerging infectious diseases. At the same time, it revealed how well placed and effective institutions in…

Public Service Act 2020 and our post-colonial future (2020) In this 2020 commentary for Public Sector, written at IPANZ’s invitation while the Public Service Legislation Bill was before Parliament, I ask whether the new legislation will allow Māori to exercise rangatiratanga, and my answer is probably not. The Bill recognises that the public service has…

Provoking debate and learning lessons: What the Performance Improvement Framework challenged us to think about (2012) In this 2012 article, Kevin Guerin and I ask what the first 21 Performance Improvement Framework reviews, published in the framework’s first three years, suggest about public management in Aotearoa when they are read together as a single data…