Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson has quit, declaring his relationship with Attorney-General, George Brandis, is “irretrievably broken” and taking a major swipe at his government critics. Gleeson’s resignation follows their bitter row over Brandis’s order that all requests for the Solicitor-General’s advice must come through his office. In a toughly-worded letter to Brandis, Gleeson says his decision...

Deconstructs and aims to provoke further response to a 4 May 2016 'Dominion Post' editorial, ‘Servants of the people, not govt’, in which it is implied that the NZ public service enjoys a constitutional personality (or identity) and, as such, it is vital to the integrity, efficiency and effectiveness of our system of government and...

Presents data using a variety of lenses – the state as taxer, spender, producer, employer, investor and steward – to assess how the size and shape of the state has changed since 1900.

This Implementation Report outlines the outputs and initiatives that have been undertaken to meet the recommendations of the Public Sector Data Management Report (2015).

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