Gabriel Makhlouf acted in good faith and did not unfairly malign the National Party opposition in addressing his department's dramatic failure to maintain budget confidentiality…

The New Zealand National Party has attacked the government's plans for extensive public service reforms involving a major overhaul of the legislation.

New Zealand's public service will undergo the "biggest shake-up in 30 years" which will involve replacing its underpinning legislation and, according to Minister for State…

Minister of State Services Chris Hipkins has announced the most significant changes to the New Zealand Public Service since the State Sector Act of 1988.

Across the advanced industrial world, the centre-left largely remains in opposition, with poor prospects for immediate future government. If it is a story of decline,…

Senior New South Wales public servant Dr Caralee McLiesh has been appointed as the next Secretary to Te Tai Ōhanga, the Treasury of New Zealand,…

New Zealand can improve well-being through improved policymaking and housing and migration reforms, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says.

There is consensus among New Zealand policymakers and researchers that GDP is not a good measure of a nation’s well-being. But the debate about what…

New Zealand’s first ‘wellbeing budget’ was delivered last week by Minister of Finance Grant Robertson. As the second budget from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour-led…

Five years ago, the UK's Policy Profession Board made a commitment to improve policy making across government, signing the Twelve Actions to Professionalise Policy Making…

New Zealand has released its anticipated first wellbeing budget, with major focuses on measuring and addressing mental health, child poverty, children in state care, family…

New Zealand's official use of AI algorithms in government has been in the spotlight in recent years. We recommend New Zealand establish a new independent…

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has chosen the head of her defence department to become the next Deputy State Services Commissioner. Secretary of Defence…

Australia's government-funded organisations have stronger cyber security than their counterparts anywhere in the world, in the eyes of a large multinational that analysed a year's…