New Zealand

The buck stops here, now: critical decisions need to be made across all departments and agencies. We will be judged on how well we ‘do politics’ at this critical time. Here is a provisional inventory of current and foreseeable hot issues facing the public service and public sector.

Labor believes all people in Australia — regardless of their visa status — should receive appropriate support in the COVID-19 crisis. It’s the right thing to do, and it’s the Australian way.

Although conference organisers and male speakers have leverage on how diverse a panel turns out, professional women can also take matters into their own hands to ensure speaking panels at conferences have an equal amount of women to men on them.

Welcome to Mandarin Premium’s latest newsletter, Intelligence Briefing, your guide to the most important developments from public sectors across the globe. The COVID-19 coronavirus has created an unprecedented challenge for Australian departments across all portfolios, and determining what governments have done well — and not so well — could very well be crucial to meeting […]

Killing off an underperforming product or policy can sometimes feel like sending a beloved pet away ‘to the farm’. It’s tough, sometimes it’s necessary. But sometimes it can also be the start of something better.

The New Zealand government will create a hub to support and collaborate with public servants from the Pacific region. The Pacific Public Service Fale will strengthen public services and stability across the region, according to NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters. “Pacific countries want strong public sectors to deliver the services that are critical to […]

Expert, trusted and independent advice will be essential to ensuring New Zealand plays its part in solving the challenge of climate change. This week, the NZ Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw, announced the team of experts who now have the important task of providing governments with that advice.

The New Zealand government has chosen senior public servant Mark Sowden to take over the post of Government Statistician from Liz MacPherson, who announced she would resign earlier this year in the wake of a highly critical report on the conduct of the 2018 Census.