Today the campaign for a Living Wage – an $18.40 an hour pay rate for hard-working New Zealanders – took another big step forward with an amazing presentation to the Wellington City Council. A huge delegation, one of the biggest the council has seen in a long time, was led by St Andrews on...
Read more →New Zealand companies are failing to capitalise on the country’s reputation for being open and transparent, even though it’s a genuine competitive advantage – unlike our ‘100% Pure’ brand. That was the verdict of Suzanne Snively, the executive chair of Transparency International, speaking at a panel session organised by the Institute for Governance and...
Read more →New Zealand has too many Cabinet ministers and too many government agencies – but more departmental mergers is not the solution, Labour MP Trevor Mallard said at a joint lecture for the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies and the Institute of Public Administration New Zealand. Mallard, a former Minister of Education and State...
Read more →Labour MP and former education minister Trevor Mallard has suggested that the school system might be spending too effort on working with the bottom fifth of students at the expense of “the most talented kids”. Giving a lecture in Wellington on Tuesday this week, Mallard noted efforts to make sure the school system responds...
Read more →An IGPS/IPANZ Panel Discussion on the Governance of Local Government, 5 April 2013 People’s ability to shape their own community is under threat from several sources, a panel of experts argued at an event last week co-hosted by the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies and the Institute of Public Administration New Zealand. Wellington...
Read more →This is an article I wrote for the National Business Review, describing how a government regulator who clashed with NZX, the body that runs the stockmarket, was ushered out of his job – despite his complaint’s being upheld. A PDF copy of the article is available here: NBR – Whistleblower out after NZX clash...
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