Public service policies: a webinar with the political partiesTe Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi Public Service Association I chaired a webinar that gave members of Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi Public Service Association the chance to hear directly from politicians about their parties’ policies for the public service. Our discussion covered back-office cuts, the importance of…

Decolonisation and public management in Aotearoa In this Monash University webinar on decolonising pedagogy, I responded to Michael Mintrom and Deirdre O’Neill’s paper on policy education in Australia and Aotearoa. I offered a working definition of decolonisation as a process: in public management terms, a process of ensuring institutions are of the place they seek…