Business of Government: Keeping the pressure on, Crump's return and more...

Business of Government: Keeping the pressure on, Crump's return and more...
Christopher Luxon wants to maintain the pressure on public servants but is wary of 'unintended consequences' aka 'dropped balls'. (Image: NZME)
Jem Traylen
The ‘unintended consequences’ of Luxon’s targetsPrime Minister Christopher Luxon’s own Cabinet paper on the Government’s “nine targets to rule them all” reveals the extent to which, to use his own words, they aren’t “going to be easy to achieve”.The paper, which the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet released last week, was unredacted and didn’t attempt to hide the scale of course correction required by the public service to land Luxon’s “ambitious” target...

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