Kate MacNamara

New Zealand-based journalist

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Covid inquiry: Tony Blakely’s advice to Government and what it means for the inquiry he chairs, via @nzherald https://t.co/GbjCMvMKNn

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Minister’s letter aimed at unseating Te Pūkenga chair Murray Strong, and his rejoinder, via @nzherald https://t.co/gCj123eEKL

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@MHReddell Leauanae's still at Culture and Heritage, and he got an annual $105,000 pay rise when he moved over.

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@Economissive The PSC presents it as an increase in staffing.

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The Commerce Commission is leaning towards blocking a proposed Foodstuffs merger of North Island and South Island operations.
Commerce Commission outlines case against proposed supermarket merger, via @nzherald https://t.co/n6bSEJR1Vz

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Public Service added thousands of new hires late last year, data shows, via @nzherald https://t.co/fkifK9o3eU

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What Te Pūkenga’s four chief executives were paid to offer (and stop offering) their services - The Public Purse, via @nzherald https://t.co/8SxX5v4GC1

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Chateau Tongariro costing taxpayers $2.2m a year to sit empty, via @nzherald https://t.co/FO02NpJSGZ

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New Gov't and a new job for Gráinne Moss, former Oranga Tamariki boss who was pushed out in very politicised circumstances in 2021.
Former Oranga Tamariki boss Grainne Moss tapped to set up new regulation ministry, via @nzherald https://t.co/spV8l24nRW

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Can the Government unseat the chair of the Covid-19 inquiry - and at what cost?, via @nzherald https://t.co/xp2Evr2lSb

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Redundancy pay totals $710k for two departing Three Waters bosses, a third still employed, via @nzherald https://t.co/97UehpqryM

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MBIE’s magical thinking about the value of pouring $3b into regional development, via @nzherald https://t.co/8npmXXy5I0

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Buyer for insolvent Ruapehu Alpine Lifts’ main skifield walks away, via @nzherald https://t.co/gVjBLW8EAH

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Funding for period products in schools runs out in June because the last gov't paid for it, with a quiet bit of redirection, from the Covid fund.
‘Fiscal cliff’: why govt funding for period products in schools is stopping - Kate MacNamara, via @nzherald https://t.co/B46B86kDXA

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‘Totally inappropriate’: $5100 of public money spent on retirement gifts for DoC boss https://t.co/AFibhxPvhE
Lou Sanson said he thought Department of Conservation staff and ministers paid for his send-off carvings.

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Consultants’ bill nearing $2m for cost-cutting work at the Department of Conservation https://t.co/58sYRediRO

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How now-insolvent Ruapehu Alpine Lifts got $5m from the Provincial Growth Fund without applying https://t.co/ZJ4cttzXnZ

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The Department of Internal Affairs took more than 7 months to provide the salaries of the new three waters bosses. It claimed the information is private. It isn't.

Three Waters: New water bosses got pay bumps of 50 per cent department finally reveals https://t.co/FrYPL2lwCp

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Kate MacNamara: Supermarket’s bid for consolidated market power should be blocked, via @nzherald https://t.co/93DO7x27OF