Articles by Kate MacNamara
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National
Kate MacNamara: Can the Government unseat the chair of the Covid-19 inquiry - and at what cost?
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 2:37pmThe new Government has begun the process of broadening the remit for the Covid-19 Royal Commission Inquiry. On February 8,...
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Politics
Mind the gap: gender pay reporting likely to fall through the cracks
Tuesday, 23 January 2024, 1:52pmA plan to reduce the pay gap between men and women has stalled and appears likely to be diluted or cancelled. A mandatory...
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National
Water regulator’s $47,577 Canada trip touches a nerve in Christchurch
Monday, 1 January 2024, 9:53amTaumata Arowai, the water services regulator, spent $47,577 to send four staff to Canada last year, to help develop an exemptions...
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National
The Public Purse: How successive Prime Ministers have spent from a little slush fund known as “Emerging Priorities”
Monday, 18 December 2023, 2:20pmThe Prime Minister’s Emerging Priorities Fund is a handy little pot of money that New Zealand leaders have tapped for decades. It’s...
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National
Analysis: The uses and abuses of Regulatory Impact Analyses
Friday, 15 December 2023, 2:37pmThe new Government has lifted the requirement for “regulatory impact analyses” in instances where it will “solely repeal...
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National
‘Totally inappropriate’: $5100 of public money spent on retirement gifts for DoC boss
Thursday, 14 December 2023, 3:44pmThe Department of Conservation spent $5,159 on two farewell gifts for outgoing boss Lou Sanson documents released this year...
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National
Eating its words: National backtracks on Māori language bonuses for public servants
Monday, 4 December 2023, 2:48pmZB Plus has confirmed that three more of the government’s core public agencies – the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of...
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National
Consultants’ bill nearing $2m for cost-cutting work at the Department of Conservation
Monday, 27 November 2023, 2:33pmThe cash-strapped Department of Conservation (DoC) has moved to “phase two” of a cost-cutting review and restructure that...
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News
How now-insolvent Ruapehu Alpine Lifts got $5m from the Provincial Growth Fund without applying
Monday, 20 November 2023, 2:50pmWhen the Office of the Auditor General focused its attention on the $640 million pot of Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) money...
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National
Three Waters: New water bosses got pay bumps of 50 per cent department finally reveals
Friday, 10 November 2023, 11:25amThree water reform chief executives, hired by the Department of Internal Affairs this year, were paid salaries of $710,000...
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National
Kate MacNamara: Preferred bidder for Tūroa ski field in line for terms sweetened with Crown funding
Thursday, 2 November 2023, 11:16amThe company bidding for the financially distressed Tūroa ski field expects the sale and purchase agreement for the assets...
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National
Auditor General finds Covid contract related to Dr Nikki Turner 'inappropriate'
Monday, 30 October 2023, 2:59pmThe Office of the Auditor General has made a series of recommendations to the University of Auckland in the wake of a Covid-era...
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Politics
The Public Purse: Turning off the three waters tap
Friday, 20 October 2023, 2:28pmThe Labour Government’s three waters reform plan may well prove to be the largest waste of public money of the last six years.If...
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National
The extent of disrepair at the Chateau Tongariro, a looming $5.4m cost, and signs of a legal dispute
Thursday, 19 October 2023, 1:34pmA “building condition appraisal” of the shuttered and rundown Chateau Tongariro Hotel has found that some $5.4m of repairs...
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News
'Some of the focus unfair': Deputy PM defends Mahuta as probe launched into family contracts
Wednesday, 21 September 2022, 4:07pmPublic service commissioner Peter Hughes is looking into the awarding of contracts to businesses associated with family members...
