Armstrong on public sector restructuring

John Armstrong looks at what is doing:

You won't hear National saying as much. But the minority Government has quietly begun what in the end might be the biggest shake-up of the core public service since the 1980s.

It has taken a while for to sink in to those in .

The latest upheaval will be less visible than National's previous attempts to pare back the State – deliberately so in order to blunt attacks from Labour and the public sector .

It is less driven by ideology and more by John Key's view that public services are always comparatively high-cost operations and therefore should not be immune from being made to re-invent themselves as selling smarter, better services.

Indeed, the Government should not be immune from the same restraint the rest of the country is.

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