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John Hartevelt in the Dom Post: Government departments are about to start disappearing, the head of the public service says. State Services commissioner Iain Rennie said the structure of the entire public service would be changed within five years. Excellent. I believe the future is fewer ministries, but they will be sector-wide. In hindsight National

The NZ Initiative has published a research note comparing our Executive Government to others. They note: We have 44% more Ministers, 282% more portfolios and 156% more departments than countries of similar size NZ has 41 departments NZ has 27 crown agencies NZ has 74 ministerial portfolios and 22 associate portfolios NZ stands out like

Two artists whose dogged persistence with figurative art are having major retrospectives in London: Philip Guston and R.B. Kitaj.