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PUBLIC SERVICE CUTS
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): David Seymour looks at regulatory shake up, potentially cutting Women, Māori out of policy talks
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Govt’s health and education targets a welcome start
Azaria Howell (Herald): Internal documents show Health Ministry chose to cut 134 jobs rather than trim executive salaries (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Mental health minister scrambles as Suicide Prevention Office caught in cuts
Felix Desmarais (1News): Suicide Prevention Office 'will remain open' - minister
Ireland Hendry-Tennent and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Suicide Prevention Office could close if proposed Ministry of Health job cuts go ahead - PSA
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Government departments defend staffing increase in late 2023
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): NZ public sector job cuts: what we know so far
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): A running tally of the public sector job cuts
Ross Tanner (Post): Understanding the hard realities of public service job cuts (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Crunch time coming for the public service (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Too many public servants?
Anna Whyte (Post): Inside Ministry of Health job cut proposal: ‘We need to be smaller’ (paywalled)
Jemima Huston (RNZ): Ministry of Health proposes 134 job losses
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Ministries confirm staff cuts, after crowd sourcing savings ideas
Anna Whyte (Post): Ministry of Social Development opens voluntary redundancies, more job losses likely (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Government funding ends for 15-year long Growing Up in New Zealand project
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Stats NZ scraps survey gathering key child poverty data
David Farrar: Which govt departments have grown the most?
Soumya Bhamidipati (RNZ): Wellington job market already tough before public sector redundancies
ECONOMY
Mathew Hooton (Herald): Why NZ is doomed to a downhill spiral from 2030 unless we get on top of debt (paywalled)
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): We are not as wealthy as we thought we were (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: Christopher Luxon’s ‘CEO approach’: shoring up the status quo
Sam Stubbs (Post): A big reason why New Zealand is so expensive (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Confidence in Government collapses
David Farrar: Roy Morgan poll March 2024
Brent Edwards (NBR): April fool, building costs, dismal Wellington, momentum and focus (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (Blue Review): The Reluctant Politician (paywalled)
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