Whaddya mean there's too many public servants?

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Mon, 09 Oct 2023

The National and Act parties have been developing a narrative that the growth of the public service is out of control and, in particular, declared open season on "backroom bureaucrats" they say are public enemy No 1.A growing legion of comms advisers and policy wonks has starved frontline public services of much-needed resources, they say.But where's the evidence? BusinessDesk begins a new ongoing series this week to glean what we can out of the available data, and that's probably the first valid criticism – a lack...

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