crambosley

[Welly Wahine 🍉 @salty_kiwi]

I always get pushback when I critique the public service. I get that; we have an important role & are under pressure.
But take seriously the Auditor General’s comments: that it was MoH’s job to have pushed back harder than they did. It’s not MoH’s job to just say “yes Minister!”

[Craig Renney @CLRenney]

I was going to write something about this - but Lilly has put it far more eloquently and accurately than I could. If we care about productivity, delivery, capability, or cost - this is a bad idea.

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

Dr Lester Levy was brought on as Commissioner at Te Whatu Ora to turn around our financially crippled health system.

He's paid $320k p.a to work a 3 day week.

Today was his first appearance with the Health Select Committee but he failed to bring the requested financial reports

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

David Seymour still relying on the now defunct Curia Research to claim support for his Treaty Principles Bill.

Curia recently packed it up before they were suspended by Research Association NZ for bias in their survey data.

[Ayesha Verrall @drayeshaverrall]

Christopher Luxon’s claims about 14 levels of management at Health NZ is nothing but spin, to justify #healthcuts. The govt knew they’d need more money to make sure we had enough nurses and so they were paid better, but chose not to fund them. 1/n

[Newsroom @NewsroomNZ]

Doubts over the depth and rigour of Sir Bill English’s review of public housing agency Kāinga Ora are heightened by scathing confidential feedback over errors, omissions and using unverified hearsay. https://t.co/3NKqJ8rkDQ

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

Here's @Kieran_McAnulty's excellent speech in the House today on the government's review of Kāinga Ora:

"I do not accept that placing Sir Bill English, the man who oversaw the wholesale of our state houses while he was Finance Minister, as anywhere near independent."

[crambosley @Crambosley]

@henrycooke @dpfdpf @jacktame Why does closing day of voting have to be results day? So much of the drama around late enrollment was directly about having partial/inconclusive results. Why not publish when they are all counted and go to a caretaker govt process in the interim (which is what happens anyway)

[crambosley @Crambosley]

I cannot fathom that I live in a place where anyone thinks that funnelling money to millionnaires is worth this https://t.co/SHnuBp2x3B

[crambosley @Crambosley]

@LewSOS @KyleDChurch @Jaksnzz Is extreme bias on the editorial desk not sufficient? I don't think we would need all or even a majority of individual reporters to be compromised in order for editorial bias to be a cause for concern. Bias at the top impacts resourcing, time, and final approval. That's enough.

[crambosley @Crambosley]

@LewSOS @KyleDChurch @Jaksnzz Lew even when they have access they're not impartial. Honestly grapple with what the article here represents: seeking confirmation rather than proof from wildly unreliable sources - and in violation of their own standards. This is bias, explicitly https://t.co/cQqsah3DCD

[Kirsty Johnston @kirsty_johnston]

Imagine being the person who was like, you know where we could save money? Disabled children’s swimming lessons

https://t.co/6YP5sGbIhS

[Newshub @NewshubNZ]

Blindsided: Shock changes to disability funding leave the community and carers reeling https://t.co/t7tpcsYdhk #Newshub

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

Here's @jacktame grilling Chris Bishop over the new fast-track process that will allow the government to override court decisions that have blocked large-scale projects for environmental reasons:

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

An Atlas Network press release claims their NZ partner, The Taxpayers' Union, was instrumental in getting Prime Minister Ardern to dump the idea of a capital gains tax through their #AxeThisTax campaign in 2019.

https://t.co/MoVoyVMPpH

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[Craig Renney @CLRenney]

Inflation has now fallen from 7.2% to 4.7% without significant cuts to government spending, and on a quarterly basis is now within the the target range. Inflation doesn’t appear to have been driven by government spending in any significant way.

[crambosley @Crambosley]

@Greshark @Krissie_r @MicheleACourt 🙌🙌 Agreed, and notably a subsidy requires money collected by the government elsewhere to be given out (in this case to the purchaser of a new car), whereas a tax on ICE car purchases takes money in from new car purchasers that can be spent somewhere (anywhere!?) else

[crambosley @Crambosley]

@FrankMcRae None of this disagrees with your main point - so much going to consultants- but it's not generic PM or business support work, it's doing the stuff the Ministry of Works would have done in house. For 2 or 3x the price. Because small govt + free market is more efficient?

[crambosley @Crambosley]

@FrankMcRae Second would be that there's a huge requirement for enabling technology to be built that allows management of bespoke considerations affecting progression of the project and given how far down the line it was it's likely much of that was in place or close to.