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"Red flags": Push to cull ministerial portfolios met with caution

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 2 Sept 2025, 11:14am
Photo / Mark Mitchell
Photo / Mark Mitchell

"Red flags": Push to cull ministerial portfolios met with caution

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 2 Sept 2025, 11:14am

A push to slim down New Zealand’s unusually large number of ministerial portfolios is being met with caution. 

A report by the New Zealand Initiative's found comparable countries have a third of our 81 portfolios and is calling for a cull. 

PSA's national secretary Fleur Fitzsimons says they don't object to a discussion around this. 

But she told Andrew Dickens it's taking place in a political context, driven by the ACT Party. 

Fitzsimons says David Seymour's been vocal about dismissing more public servants and moving to a model of privatisation. 

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