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Speaker 1: You've got to ask yourself who's running the show. Another

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Speaker 1: example of bureaucracy seemingly undermining the government on its cost

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Speaker 1: cutting plan, which remember from the start, from the outset,

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Speaker 1: they said, no frontline job's going latest thing. You've got

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Speaker 1: a Health New Zealand manager who did a PowerPoint to

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Speaker 1: ninety staff about upcoming changes. They indicated that jobs could

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Speaker 1: be cut, including get this, four hundred and seventy doctors

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Speaker 1: and fourteen hundred nurses. What who on earth thought that

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Speaker 1: was okay? Did they do it on purpose? Is it

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Speaker 1: a middle finger to the government and to the commissioner

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Speaker 1: Lesta Levy? The truth is we don't really know at

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Speaker 1: this point, Levy says, and he's quoted a newsroom is saying,

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Speaker 1: is this reluctance, is this resistance or is this sabotage?

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Speaker 1: Fair question? He's promising consequences. It's totally unacceptable. But it's

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Speaker 1: not an isolated incident. Ordering a Tamadiki is another agency

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Speaker 1: cutting funding left front and center to services. I think

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Speaker 1: many keywis would consider frontline like counseling. The stories get

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Speaker 1: in the press and then there's a back down, and

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Speaker 1: we've had public service leaking against the government. Loads of examples,

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Speaker 1: at least six major leaks that I could recall. There

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Speaker 1: was that Cabinet paper on the Foreign Housing investors, the

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Speaker 1: Treaty Principles Bill, stuff that has been leaked. You can't

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Speaker 1: know for sure the motivations in each case, but it

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Speaker 1: doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that there

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Speaker 1: is huge resistance to the Coalition government's agenda within parts

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Speaker 1: of pockets of the bureaucracy. They need raining in. The

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Speaker 1: examples here need to be set, I think, and if

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Speaker 1: the message falls on deaf as well, maybe they need

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Speaker 1: to be marched out the door. For more from news

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