Ardern reshuffles Woods to housing czar; no demotion for Twyford
By Pattrick Smellie June 27 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made Megan Woods her new housing minister in a bid to cauterise the political damage done by Phil Twyford’s leadership of the struggling KiwiBuild programme. Twyford remains in charge of urban devel...
UPDATE: Makhlouf in denial, no resignation offer
(Updates with detail throughout) By Pattrick Smellie June 27 (BusinessDesk) - Public sector chief executives should offer to resign in the case of "major failings", but there was no such offer from Treasury secretary Gabriel Makhlouf over the Treasury website security laps...
Makhlouf failed to take personal responsibility for Budget leak: SSC
By Pattrick Smellie June 27 (BusinessDesk) - Treasury Secretary Gabriel Makhlouf failed to take appropriate personal responsibility for the website security breach that allowed the National Party to access secret budget documents ahead of the May 30 budget delivery, State Serv...
Hipkins seeks joined-up thinking across state bureaucracy
By Pattrick Smellie June 26 (BusinessDesk) - Major reforms to the law governing the public service will force far more collaboration between government agencies on the biggest policy challenges, State Services Minister Chris Hipkins says. Announcing the largest set of publ...
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