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Sexual harassment continues at Mfat, despite culture overhaul
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On a Thursday in February, at Wellington’s Conservation House, the Conservation Authority, a statutory body advising the eponymous department and minister, Tama Potaka, opened its 195th meeting.
Under consideration that afternoon was an agenda item written by Tim Bamford, chief advisor in the Department of Conservation’s biodiversity, heritage and visitors team, entitled: Determination of status of wapiti in Fiordland National Park.
The matter was in the public interest.
It involved an exotic species – wapiti, the largest of the country’s wild deer species, are North American elk, originally ..read more
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A lengthy response to the recently released draft Government policy statement on transport will soon be delivered from Auckland Council to Minister of Transport Simeon Brown.
A submission raising concerns about funding distribution and the plan’s treatment of Auckland passed through the council’s transport committee on Wednesday, despite some councillors accusing the submission of politicking and potentially biting the hand that feeds.
Council’s submission expressed particular concern about proposed public transport funding cuts, which council staff warned could force Auckland Transport to si ..read more
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Opinion: Government’s approach needs more finesse to reassure people it has their best interests at heart
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The unidentified foreign intelligence operation discussed in a scathing report by New Zealand’s Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) last week appears to be a controversial United States intelligence system.
The IGIS report said the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) decision to host a foreign system from 2012-2020 was “improper” and that the GCSB “could not be sure the tasking of the capability was always in accordance with… New Zealand law.”
The Inspector-General said “I have found some of the GCSB’s explanations about how the capability operated, and was task ..read more
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Concessions from the Department of Conservation will mean Pure Tūroa can officially buy the popular Tūroa ski field
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Revealed: the advice coalition partners asked officials for during post-election negotiations
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The Government’s Budget Policy Statement leaves the key fiscal questions on Budget allowances and the deadline to return to surplus unanswered.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis had previously pledged the statement would outline how much the Government plans to spend in each of the next four Budgets, as is standard practice. Instead, she said on Wednesday, the full details wouldn’t be available until Budget 2024 is released on May 30.
All Willis could say was that the new operating spend in Budget 2024 would be lower than what Labour had planned at $3.5 billion. She wouldn’t promise that it woul ..read more