Tag: Public service
Health chief ‘conductor of an orchestra who’s never played an instrument’
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell
In February 2025, Dr Diana Sarfati resigned, not unexpectedly, as Director-General of Health after only two years into her five-year term.
As...
How New Zealand is venturing down the road of political upheaval
ANALYSIS: By Peter Davis
With the sudden departure of New Zealand's Reserve Bank Governor, one has to ask whether there is a pattern here --...
In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Sussex, Australian National University
Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself...
Huge NZ Pasifika ministry cuts – ‘first steps toward abolition?’ asks...
RNZ Pacific
Opposition MPs and unions are criticising a proposal by New Zealand's Ministry of Pacific Peoples to cut staff by 40 percent.
The country's largest...
Pasifika leaders remember ‘stand-out community leader’ Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist
Fa'anānā Efeso Collins is being remembered as a pillar of the Pacific community with a "big heart of service",...
Rob Campbell: Public service bosses of ‘Pyongponeke’ forget who they’re supposed...
COMMENTARY: By Rob Campbell
In Pyongyang there is a public service which would appeal to our own Public Service Commissioner in Aotearoa New Zealand. It...
Health NZ chair fired over ‘political’ post, but says govt ‘overreacted’
Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand's board chairperson Rob Campbell has been sacked over a political attack he made about the opposition National Party's...
Brij Lal’s tribute to Jai Ram Reddy – ‘a true son...
OBITUARY: By Dr Brij Lal
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear Full many a floww’r is...
Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree?...
COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer, PNG's Minister of Police who has defended Commissioner Manning's appointment today in The National
My last article, announcing that I intend...
Marape makes rare PNG visit to NZ to boost friendship, model...
ANALYSIS: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has embarked on a state visit to New Zealand. It is...
Timor-Leste finally has a government. But what happens now?
By Guteriano Neves in Dili
After nearly a year of political deadlock resulting from a minority government, and a divisive political campaign, Timor-Leste is set...
