All posts tagged "Jacinda Ardern"

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  ‘Machinery of government expert’ becomes New Zealand PM

  Incoming New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins has said that the government is currently doing “too much too fast” and has pledged an increased focus on tackling inflation in his

  • Posted January 23, 2023
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  New Zealand’s prime minister resigns; Taiwan passes climate bill enshrining promotion of plant-based foods: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Jacinda Ardern steps down as prime minister of New Zealand citing burnout New Zealand’s

  • Posted January 19, 2023
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  Grown-up government: an interview with Iain Rennie, New Zealand’s former state services commissioner

  Over four years working as a consultant to governments around the world, former New Zealand civil service chief Iain Rennie has witnessed the global slide towards populism. But in his

  • Posted September 18, 2020
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  New Zealand ministers and top civil servants take pay cut amid corona crisis

  New Zealand’s PM, ministers and public service chief executives – the most senior officials in each government department – will take a 20% pay cut for six months, in solidarity

  • Posted April 16, 2020
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  New Zealand on the verge of major public service reform

  A new bill brought to New Zealand’s parliament is to pave the way for the “most significant change in the public service in 30 years”, enabling government to more effectively

  • Posted November 27, 2019
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  World’s first ‘wellbeing budget’ broadens focus from GDP

  The New Zealand government announced details of their much-anticipated ’wellbeing budget’ last week, shifting the focus away from economic growth to include quality of life and public wellbeing. Rather than

  • Posted June 6, 2019
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  New Zealand agencies rapped for CEO pay hikes

  Three quangos have been rapped by New Zealand’s public sector pay commissioner for giving their chief executives bigger salary hikes than he advised. The Guardians of NZ Superannuation, the Accident

  • Posted December 17, 2017
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  Populist holds trump card in NZ coalition talks

  New Zealanders are set to wait at least two weeks to find out who will form their next government, after Saturday’s general election delivered a hung parliament. Populist Winston Peters

  • Posted October 2, 2017
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