The Government’s big purge
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- On this week’s episode of the Raw Politics podcast: Who might be next as the cleanout of senior public servants and directors gathers momentum
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Kāinga Ora has been purged, KiwiRail has lost three directors, senior public servants are retiring or being encouraged to pursue alternative careers.
Where does it stop? This week on Raw Politics the panel tries to anticipate other targets in the public service and state owned businesses who might fall into the coalition’s crosshairs for “refreshing”.
Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political writer Emma Hatton and co-editor Tim Murphy explore why and how new administrations show their frustration with organs of the state that are deemed not sufficiently with the new programme.
We debate Act’s invoking the coalition’s ‘agree to disagree’ mechanism over the Government’s backing of the new law targeting Facebook and Google for money to support the struggling NZ news media sector. And we debate the merits of that media policy and politicians playing a part in directing funding to news companies.
Panelists give their views on the Government’s latest quarterly action plan, and answering a reader question, we find out who will provide the political coverage for the new Stuff-run Three News when it begins on Saturday after Newshub signs off forever.
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This week's recommendations:
Emma - a piece from Australia’s ABC: Disability organisations ‘on life support’ say budget cuts will force them to wind back services
Tim - Our Newsroom foreign affairs editor Sam Sachdeva’s analysis of just what important defence deals came out of the Luxon visit to Japan
Laura - Emma Hatton and Jonathan Milne’s Newsroom scoop on the Three top civil servants who ‘won’t have contracts renewed’
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‘Agree to disagree’ is an adult way to deal with the inevitable issues that a three party coalition will have.
The quarterly plan idea is good.
The public servant comment is puzzling. ‘They serve the public not the minister’. Not really. The public vote in the government and the public service’s job is to implement it as effectively as possible. So, yes they serve the minister, in that the minister is accountable to the public.
18:00 "shouldn't be taking money from government" is not being "seen to be independent". Media needs to be seen to be independent from corporates and other lobby groups, and advertisers who influence through revenue. RNZ is clearly free from Government influence despite being funded by Govt. - who is funding Newsroom???
Please answer.
I agree that RNZ is clear from government influence, but they clearly lean to one side of the political divide. People see that and see the government funding they receive and may decide it is not as neutral as a government funded network should be. Every podcast and news channel leans one way or the other, this will only change when true AI potentially runs our media.
The media shouldn't be a competing business its supposed to be the 4th estate, a pillar of democracy and if Democracy is not a business then neither should its founding pillars....
They can always turn to construction.
Nearly always and certainly recently all rankings of crime rates by country have New Zealand in the top 10 countries for having the lowest crime rates.
when you go home remember it was you who chose loyalty over morality(the definition of selling your soul) and you put your self above other groups.
Its not even xmas yet though
What is this ...Balanced factual reporting ... A new direction for NZ journalism... I like this
Philippa Howden-Chapman wrote a good article about the benefits of housing nz on 5 July in the press
The State service is the same size per capita as it has been for the last 35 years and before that it was larger. This government appears to be very inexperienced and arrogant. What they believe is the fix, doesn't appear to have been researched in depth. Take the cancelations of the ferries " we don't need a Ferrari when a Toyota Carolla will do" yet a Toyota is not available and is not suitable for the job either Obviously Nicola hadn't checked the availability, costings and suitability of the Toyota. The costs of this decision is mounting $300 mil to break the contract, Kiwi Rail $300 mil spend on the project so far, then a couple of new smaller ferries, without rail handling ability $900 mil.Who knows what the cost of unloading and reloading Cook Strait rail freight is yet to be calculated.
The original costs of the two rail capable ferries $550mil, it would seem, pretty bad decision making IMHO.
Please tell the full story. The excessive costs of the project was the required infrastructure upgrade at each port. With the obvious knowledge you have on this subject it seems strange you didn't mention this.
"it would seem pretty bad decicion making" if you cannot do maths very well, If you can do maths then you would know this was a very wise decision
Public service increased disproportionately under Labour
Good job
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This person has written and interest paper on evening the tax burden.