The National Party has performed poorly in opinion polls for the past two years. The question has been whether this would improve once their major policy platform of economic recovery became more apparent, or whether their slump is indicative of a wider malaise affecting conservative parties globally.
The latest TVNZ Verian poll appears to have answered that question. From 38.08 percent support on election night in October 2023, National dropped to a low of 29.6 percent, before rebounding to 36 percent. With ACT on 10 percent and New Zealand First on 9, the Coalition’s combined support of 55 percent, would comfortably win an election if it was held tomorrow.
Meanwhile Labour’s revival also continues with the party climbing to 35 percent, while the Greens fell to 7, and, the Maori Party, in the midst of self-inflicted chaos, dropped to 1.
While polls are little more than a snapshot of public sentiment at a particular moment in time, the Maori Party’s result is a stark reminder that nothing corrodes public trust in a political party faster than internal conflict and leadership rows.
This is a lesson National cannot afford to ignore – especially given the leadership debate that has dogged the Party in recent months. Whether the unrest reflects genuine supporter concerns or has been orchestrated by opponents to destabilise the Party and undermine public confidence, it will inevitably have had a detrimental effect on their poll ratings.
Furthermore, while Labour alliances tend to be firmly anchored in socialist ideology and stabilised by union discipline, conservative movements, as broad coalitions of wide-ranging interests from business and farming, to religious and traditional family values, are inherently more unstable.
In fact, it’s not hard to find countries where they have fractured almost beyond repair. Defeated in elections by left wing governments, conservative parties in Australia, Canada, and the UK, have found it virtually impossible to build sufficient support to retake their Treasury benches.
This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator is Liz Truss, the former British Conservative Party Prime Minister, who replaced Boris Johnson and was replaced by Rishi Sunak, explained what she believes is going on in a recent speech in Australia and called for a counter-revolution:
“I think we have to ask why are our countries, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and until recently the United States, in such a dire mess? And the answer is that the left has been working on a 50-year campaign pushing neo-Marxist ideology: wokeism, transgenderism, Islamism, mass migration, net zero zealotry, Keynesian economics… They started off by capturing our universities. They moved to capturing our bureaucracies. They then started capturing our corporations and they captured our media too.
“They have been utterly relentless in their pursuit of ideological dominance. They fundamentally want to undermine Western civilization. They want to undermine our way of life. They want to undermine the things we believe in: Christian values, free speech, the nation state.
“And they have been very effective in the way they have captured our organisations. I saw this myself as a Minister in the British government for 10 years. I saw that power that used to sit in the hands of Ministers had been handed to the Judiciary. It had been handed to over to our unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. It’s what the Americans call the ‘deep state’. It’s what we in Britain call ‘the Blob’.
“They haven’t just stopped at capturing our institutions. They have used every tactic in the book to try and undermine not just conservative values but the values of Western civilization itself.
“We are not up against rational people who want to have a debate. We are not up against people who are prepared to compromise. We are up against ideologues who are literally prepared to do anything to implement their distorted vision of the world.
“And that is how we have to approach it – as Charlie Kirk said: ‘The left have never played by our rules. Only we play by our rules. Our rules are what keeps our side from winning.’
“And the reason that we have been losing on the right – and we haven’t just been losing for 10 years, we’ve been losing for decades – is that we are playing by our rules and the left has completely ignored them. And this is why we need a major change in tactics.
“The public have had enough. They are fed up of not being told the truth by politicians and having a political class running our country that is not taking control and delivering what they want to see happening.
“These institutions cannot be viewed as neutral anymore. We have to take them on and achieve a genuine counterrevolution to reverse the Marxism that has become part of what they are.
“There are too many people on the nominally conservative or liberal side who have accepted things like transgender ideology, Keynesianism, extreme environmentalist ideology… If we are to succeed, we need to part company with those people.
“The second thing we need to do is we need to change the way our countries are governed. We are not in the 1980’s or 1990’s anymore where we had impartial civil servants. Civil servants have been radicalised. Their organisations have been radicalised. They are not the same anymore. And we either need to make sure that all of those people are accountable to the leaders who have been elected or they are abolished. Those are the only two choices.
“We need to defund the BBC… and make sure we build an independent media that is entirely free of the Blob.
“But what we need is that revolutionary spirit. So let’s resolve today to fight… It’s a battle to reverse the takeover by the leftists of our institutions, of our media. And it will be tough. It will be hard. But we need to fight.”
As Liz Truss has pointed out the conservative movement in the US is an exception – but so too is President Donald Trump. Although previously holding office, he is still regarded as an outsider who is fighting the establishment. As such he vows to do the things that voters want but that most conservatives shy away from – such as “slashing the bureaucracy”, “draining the swamp”, “and “dismantling the deep state”.
Looking at New Zealand, these sorts of reforms are desperately needed here.
The Coalition was elected to undo the damage caused by six years of Labour. It’s what we expected them to do. And while they claim to be addressing the issues – and to be fair, repairing a severely broken country is not a minor fix – there is widespread frustration that they continue to fall short.
In particular, they are failing to rein State activism – of the sort Liz Truss described.
The reality the Coalition faces is that when Jacinda Ardern was in office, she embedded political loyalists deep within the machinery of government. Her focus on identity politics – that cultural-Marxist framework that divides people by race, gender, and sexuality – led to a rapid expansion of radicalised public servants. Many of the 20,000 additional staff hired over that period were committed activists.
Axing this army of radicals – and the programmes they run – would not only save taxpayers more than $1.5 billion a year in wages alone, but it would significantly curtail the extremism that infects much of the State sector.
A recent Official Information Act response from Health New Zealand is indicative of the problem. Asked to identify woke leadership job titles of the sort that flourished under Labour – which included terms such as “diversity”, “equity”, “inclusion”, “sustainability” and “climate change” – thirteen positions were identified. They included a National Climate Risk and Adaptation Principal Advisor, a Group Manager Diversity & Inclusion, and a Head of Sustainability. With salaries of up to $286,432, the estimated salary bill for this radicalised group is almost $3.5 million!
With such productivity-destroying jobs no doubt endemic throughout the State sector, these politicised positions will be ensuring the bureaucracy continues to deliver Jacinda Ardern’s agenda!
This again is the problem Liz Truss identified – where State bureaucracies become captured by left wing ideology. And in New Zealand, that’s in spite of all government employees agreeing to a Code of Conduct which demands political neutrality: “We must maintain the political neutrality required to enable us to work with current and future governments; carry out the functions of our organisation, unaffected by our personal beliefs; respect the authority of the government of the day.”
Being politically neutral and respecting the authority of the government of the day should mean that fundamental Coalition goals like public services being prioritised “on the basis of need, not race”, that “co-governance” should be removed from public services, and that all work on “He Puapua” must stop, should be top priorities and well advanced.
Instead, State opposition to Coalition directives is commonplace.
The stouch that’s erupted following the decision to release school boards from their statutory requirement to “give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi” is a case in point.
Instead of welcoming the opportunity to focus their efforts on raising student achievement, the boards of more than 1,000 schools have supported a protest letter orchestrated by tribal activists opposed to the Coalition’s curtailing of their power base.
As Crown entities, however, school boards are part of New Zealand’s public sector and must abide by the requirement for political impartiality: “We act in a politically impartial manner. Irrespective of our political interests, we conduct ourselves in a way that enables us to act effectively under current and future governments. We do not make political statements or engage in political activity in relation to the functions of the Crown entity.”
Whether the Coalition will point out to that supporting the protest action of radical separatists is in breach of their Statutory responsibilities, remains to be seen.
Another glaring example is that in spite of the government’s promise to end race-based initiatives and “stop all work on He Puapua” – Labour’s radical plan to replace democracy with tribal rule by 2040 – they are pressing ahead with one of its key initiatives. He Puapua declared that “Maori data sovereignty recognises that data about Maori must be subject to Maori governance and control…” and it demanded “Maori‑led data governance structures”.
As a result, Statistics New Zealand is now carving out Maori data as a special category, building mechanisms that will eventually pass control of official statistics to tribal interests.
This can be seen only too clearly in an initiative just launched by Stats NZ: “Stats NZ invites expressions of interest from iwi, Maori organisations, Maori data practitioners, and individuals with expertise in te ao Maori, Maori data governance, or kaupapa Maori research, to join the Crown-Maori Statistical Design Forum.”
It was a so-called co-governance partnership between Stats NZ and iwi leaders established under Jacinda Ardern’s regime that led to private tribal interests being given the power to reclassify census data resulting in a significant increase in the number of so-called Maori in New Zealand.
Increasing the numbers categorised as Maori doesn’t just expand social services contracting opportunities for iwi leaders, but it potentially leads to an increase in the number of Maori seats in Parliament. This is no doubt why the radicals want to control of the data!
With the Coalition Government’s commitment to stop all race-based and He Puapua initiatives, shouldn’t this data project be axed – and shouldn’t the Minister, Shane Reti, be held to account?
In the UK, the Reform Party has emerged with revolutionary zeal, promising to take the country back – by slashing the bureaucracy and dismantling the deep state. As a result, they are rocketing ahead in the polls, leaving the establishment parties for dead.
Could this happen in New Zealand? Is this what is needed to rid ourselves of the long shadow that the now exiled Jacinda Ardern and her radical Labour Government cast over our country?
Or will the Coalition step up?
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Do you believe New Zealand’s Public Service is politically neutral?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| Always has a left wing bias . | martin |
| Having served in four different Govt Departs ove the years I have been dismayed at the change from Neutrality to open socialist bias and in some cases defended social activism within the Departments I served. I dont believe in todays world a Centralist or Right of Center Party can develop and undertake their elected madated policy without various degrees of unauthorised pushback by unelected factions with in the Govt service. I beleve the Ministers are entitled to investigate these persons and instantly fire them with subsequent investigations determining if not Court action for deliberate non compliance. We need more integrity in administration. | Richard |
| Their role is the same regarless of the government party in power | Julian |
| Definitely not | Mike |
| Far from it! Marx would be proud of them! | Allan |
| Good news is mostly true – bad news or deception is perceived as being more interesting ? WHY? – do you want to move up or down? – Your call, your choice !! | Maurie |
| No doubt some old-school public servants still try to be neutral, and many others will not understand the need (and how) to be neutral, but there is little doubt a large cohort are anything but neutral. The Department of Conservation could be one of the worst examples for woke/biased employees. It needs to stop. | Gary |
| There is a swamp that needs draining. | neil |
| The published accounts of Public Service activities indicate marked leftist political preferences. | Bryan |
| absolutely NOT neutral | Carolyn |
| Like the mainstream media has a strong leftwing bias | Lindsay |
| They are laughing at the Coalition because it didn’t reduce headcount as promised | Ian |
| The burocracy of NZ gov/corpotration has it’s own agenda controlled by overseas interests! It is no way, neutral! The Marxist policies of the traitor Ardern are well entrenched and must be uprooted and the leaders including Ardern must face charges for crimes against humanity during the covid 19 fiasco! They know who they are and as soon as the cleanup starts, watch all the rats abandon ship! | Peter |
| NO THE PUBLIC SERVICE IS DEFINITELY NOT POLITICALLY NEUTRAL! | Sylvia |
| I was led to reflect recently as to whether malaise impacting Wellington was due to ‘infection’ from the public service, or perhaps the other way around. The left has powerful mechanisms to instilling group think – as illustrated starkly by the utter madness of widely embraced woke propositions. By the way, the cost of having dead wood and/ or activists within the public service would be at least an order of magnitude higher than the actual wage bill, or 100-fold in education. When viewed through such lens, it is simply untenable to maintain the status quo. The incoming government should have sacked half a dozen top civil servants (wouldn’t matter who) immediately upon taking office, as a shot across the bows for all of the rest. | Tony |
| I worked for years in the public service and can definitely say that during Jacinta government we were asked to do things that contradicted this impartiality | lulu |
| Public service is pro leftist liberal and Maori co governance ideology | Rae |
| Absolutely not – they have delusions of their own importance and believe they call the shots. Unfortunately, they’re completely wrong on the former but are allowed and encouraged to do the latter by our elected representatives and MSM. | Janet |
| As this article says the “public ‘service'” are the enemy of democracy. And they are the enemy of the people. | Peter |
| If we get rid of ALL Maori seats it would show all NZers that our politicians could be serious about our future | William |
| The staff numbers appointed by Jacinda’s mob tells the tale. | Denis |
| Public servants being politically neutral is a myth. Over paid bureaucrats who work to their own agenda and beliefs is what they are | Jim |
| They have an agenda they are working on. That is to creep Marxist ideologies into NZ and destroy our social fabric and cohesion . | Mark |
| very biased to the LEFT | EWEN |
| I had to laugh when asked that question. No way. They are so far away from political neutrality that that you would need a telescope to see it. Am example is Local Government N Z which should be classified as a terrorist organisation. Most teachers aren’t politically neutral and can subtly and often pointedly make their points biased. School pupils have given me examples. But , what to do about it? | mike |
| WEED OUT THE NOXIOUS TRAITORS . | BERYL |
| very left. | David |
| Most definitely NOT. Dr Muriel Newmans’s and Liz Truss’s article are very very worrying. Our Coalition Group must be given pressure AND support to reverse the awful He Puapua ideology. | Anne |
| Clearly, by their actions, they are not. | caren |
| have been socialist for many years,under mining nz culture. socialism is an evil cult. | william |
| most of them wear bloody carvings around their neck which shows they are not politically neutral and luxon is shit scared to tell them to take the the dam things off so theres no way they will ever be sacked which most of them need to be before the next election when that evil woman adern will turn up to say the public serice is the best in the world | Richard |
| Unfortunately the Minister of Education has experienced disrespect, distrust and downright rudeness when attending meetings held by the NZIEI .. In other words activist teachers in primary schools, who are able to influence decades of young children, are now trying to control the primary teachers union and subvert educational focus torace based ideals. | Pauline |
| It’s entrenched in Government departments that, like our press and TV, the left speaks for them all. | Chris |
| Hasn’t been for years | Lorraine |
| Their bias is obvious | Colin |
| As bureaucrats they lack any common sense favoring instead the dogma of the nation wrecker Lady J…her handbook requires no brain at all ….just follow it….Mao’s Red Book, Lenin and Mein Kempf. | Brian |
| They are clearly very left wing and still progressing Jacinda Ardern’s programme. | Lucy |
| Far from it. The public service is politically active and should be stopped immediately. | Trevor |
| The Country is Under the Shadow of this He Puapua Agenda plus lABOUR POLICY and the Beuracracy National must Do as Promised Get rid of it | leo |
| They haven’t been for years , just they got more brazen under Adern and Luxon hasn’t really done anything to reverse this. | ross |
| I agree with Dr Newman’s article and Geoff Parker’s assessment that New Zealand voters want equal citizenship and equality under the law and a public service judged by outcomes not symbolism. | Peter |
| in fact, increased in numbers | Nicholas |
| Never has been. | Ann |
| Absolutely not that bloody Arden left us with problems we will never get a handle on | Terry |
| It would appear the Public Service is exposing their orientation by their actions | Karen |
| Absolutely not. It’s full of neo-Marxists, commie trade unionists and other haters of capitalism and democracy. | Lee |
| Nowhere is this more damging in New Zealand than climate change. My understanmdin is tha man,made actions contribute less than .04% of global warming. Mor important is that any attempt to encourage both the media and both sides of the political specrum will allow any debate on this subject. Talk about balance and unbiase from the medi and the government | Mike |
| The PSA is another arm of the Labour Party, They like the Judicial, Media , Universities are all complicit in their Marxist views to hand over this country to Maori Elite – New Zimbabwe is upon us. | John |
| Certainly not neutral at all. Government still give priority to Maori over all other race staff appointment, female over male appointments etc. The best person should get the job irrespective of sex, colour etc. | Keith |
| At best slow playing changes and ignoring any they do not like e.g. getting tod of re reo names | Pat |
| The public service has been left-leaning for almost half a century. The rot runs very deep. National is Labour in disguise and has not made any attempt to purge the moarification. Public servants need to realise that they are servants of the public. Currently they believe the public serves them. | Gavin |
| The blatant disregard and often open opposition of many in the NZ Public Service to the coalition Government’s policy and directives (assuming they’ve been clearly communicated) is appalling. At some level of management this should already have been called out. | Faye |
| Full of bureaucracy and are full of followers of Jacinda. National Party needs a Donald Trump type leader with the guts to turn the political tide. | James |
| And I would add “not Racial neutral’. | Henk |
| No at all and many in the public service have to be sacked. | Peter |
| it is quite obvious that they are NOT politically neutral! | Albert |
| In some cases, it is more political than some of the politic parties. | Sue |
| Hell No!, there about as neutral as a fox in a hen house. They have an agenda a goal they are spies, traitors, zealots , fanatical uncompromising wolves in sheeps clothing, they undermine, styme, side track and smoother. They will be the 1st to line up for their thought police uniforms . Thank you Charlie Kirk- yes we must change the way that we fight. We are too nice to forgiving to obliging to Kiwi. We need to get angry be ruthless be strong stand up find our voice. And to quote the man of the hour “FIGHT LIKE HELL”. Our Govt is either weak and timid or has another agenda either way it wont deliver what the country needs and what the majority voted for. So we need a new movement a new leader and if you set yourself on fire people will come to watch o burn . Somebody needs to start the fire the people need something/someone to rally to. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience out there with some very capable retired ex MPs who could offer much to help in what is rapidly becoming NEW ZEALANDS darkest hour. | Glyn J |
| It just gets worse | Faye |
| The Public Service has been Left wing for the past 30 plus years. Time for the revolution. | Grant |
| and this proves it. Stats NZ invites expressions of interest from iwi, Maori organisations, Maori data practitioners, and individuals with expertise in te ao Maori, Maori data governance, or kaupapa Maori research, to join the NEW Crown-Maori Statistical Design Forum (the Forum). Opportunity – create an enduring pathway for iwi Maori perspectives to directly shape statistical design measures that reflect Maori aspirations. – ensure official statistics reflect what matters to iwi Maori communities – and measures that reflect Maori aspirations. We all know what Maori aspirations are – co-governance as a start, separatism, special treatments for Maori (because they feel they don’t have equal opportunity at present.) apartheid. | judy |
| even the Ombudsman’s Office is not politically neutral. The Prime Minister’s Office, Cabinet Office – providing impartial Secretariat services – Cabinet Manual, Consultation, Clause 5.14.d including the Treaty of Waitangi, and human rights; and Clause 5.14.f the Attorney-General or the Minister(s) with responsibilities relating to Treaty of Waitangi settlement obligations and/or Maori-Crown relations on any proposal with potential impacts on existing Treaty of Waitangi settlements. Cabinet policy paper template Clause 11: The analysis should also take into account the guidelines agreed by Cabinet for policy-makers to consider the Treaty of Waitangi/Tiriti o Waitangi in policy development and implementation. The Cabinet Office circular Treaty of Waitangi Guidance for Agencies1 [CO (19) 5] is a useful tool to help with this.’ The whole of government is riddled with these racist requirements!!!! | ARTHUR |
| The public service is totally biased in favour of left wing and Maori causes. It’s been like this for years, Jacinda just took it to a new level. | Brent |
| I don’t think even Act or NZ First has the guts to make the changes required to rid NZ of all the separatist beauracracy. | Roger |
| it has been taken over, as you have said Muiel – we need a leader who will whipe this parasitic govt out with ‘policies’ that are for the people – | Jill |
| definitely not. Didnt the Public Service personnel numbers increase dramatically under the ardern government? All to aid and abet the radical maori movement control data. | Sharron |
| We has been said that Jacinda Ardern did more damage than a major earthquake. She and her following should have been buried under the rubble. | Paloma |
| The long game by the radical left wing and Maori elite is finally paying off. They have the bureaucrats, education, the judiciary, legacy media, and the police. Game over! | Peter |
| If they were truly Neutral, they would /should be the ones, driving the left wing ideologies into the sea | John |
| No and it is obvious | Arthur |
| The Public Service is far from politically neutral, scratch their skin & their Marxist bias will leech out. | John |
| Liebor riddled. | Mike |
| Bullshit it is, never has been, just take the land tenure act, just a socialist program to take potential freehold land away, and into the DoC estate. Estate, a name given to a left wing conglomerate to make it more appetising to anyone who has a smidgeon of conservatism in their blood/ | Sam |
| So sad National has not kept their election promises to date | NOEL |
| Why are Maori prayers or waiata being said at council meetings? | Lance |
| It’s full of left woke | Karen |
| Especially the judiciary. | |
| Not by a long shot. The Public Service needs a blow torch applied to it. I think National are largely to blame here. Luxon is being told what to do by his partys old boy network. We need someone to take control and tell the beaurocrats do as we instruct or sling your hook. They are ruining this country along with the radical maoris. Why does everything have to have a maori name on it. We used to know what government departments were, now they have a maori name and yo u don’t know what department it is for. Get in and clean this shit up before its to late. | Peter |
| From my experience, no the Public Service is not politically neutral | Russell |
| Brainwashed | Graeme |
| 100% not neutral | Brice |
| Absolutely not neutral.all govt depts are the same, it’s getting worse | Denise |
| They get away with it because Luxon hasn’t the guts to stop it. These people are destroying our way of life and he is sitting by watching it happen. | Bev |
| The evidence that so many of us see day by day makes No the only answer. | Tony |
| no they are not. A the end of the political term, fire the lot. Re apply for jobs and sign an allegiance to supporting the values of New Zealand. That is Christian values. | neil |
| As nearly aways, another thoughtful well written concerning article. Thank you Dr Newman. | John |
| Was Conservative, now Woke Left. Follows the most likelikley to pay them | Glenn |
| Full of lefties | John |
| the govt departments were told to put english first and most departments have just thumbed their noses at that also told to reduce department personal by 10% not many departments have done so in fact some have made no atempt to lose staff at all the heads of those departments should be sacked and more neutral managers put in place to sort this total overspend in our government depaertments. | DENNIS |
| Definitely not. Should be all sacked. | Heather |
| It has been largely taken over by political ideolgs | Russel |
| Watch them walking down the street. They are all nearly falling on their left sides. | David |
| No Way, its been influenced by quite a few highly erroneously motivated Overseas Corporations that have caused many People a lot of harm !! | Geoff |
| Never has been but now it openly hostile to the coalition whereas in the past it was not quite as open. | Murray |
| If you believe yes, then you definitely live in La la land! | Chris |
| Most of the public service is still running to the ideas laid down by jacinda. Those resonsible should be fired and/or prosecuted as their actions can be seen as amounting to treason. The call to fight back is long overdue | Bruce |
| It is NOT Neutral | Murray |
| radicalized over the past 2 decades | Graham |
| Hell No!! | Lesley |
| Very political | Geoff |
| Let’s go back to before the 1970s when we were all called New Zealanders; one people equal under the law. | Judy |
| Many should shape up or be shipped out. National ate pathetically slow to demand public sevants domwhat they are told by government. They only need to sack a few for the message to get through! We should get back to 2017 numbers. | Gail |
| Far from neutral. Mostly Woke/Marxist. | Glyn |
| The public service is a major stronghold of the left, politically captured and patronized by Labour and the hard left parties. | Geoff |
| Start talking to your family/friends about Muriel’s and Liz Truss’s articles. Ask them how they see NZ governed in five or ten years time? Do they think tribal rule or a racially divided population would be beneficial or not? and beneficial for them or their children in the future? after they are gone? Start talking to people about civics, about democracy, real democracy where people drive changes not unelected Globalists, who in my view are winning in the struggle for power and control in all western countries described in the article. Step up people, time to push back. Give ACT or NZ First more power over National, it beats playing the same old game and expecting a different result. it could be our the last chance, National have proven too weak and compromised. Just saying? | Sam |
| Yes you are right we need a Revolution to take back that 80% of New Zealanders are of a different culture than Maori That have done their bit in building New Zealand | Frank |
| Racist guless luxson | Greg |
| One has to be moronic if you believe the Public Service is neutral. | Trevor |
| they are labour/maori biased. | Bruce |
| They have a long way to go…. | Carl |
| One needs to be of left leaning political ideology to feel part of team public service . That is a requirement magnified by Ardern aligned activists. | Stephen |
| It represents a coming disaster. We will all be seriously affected. Ultimately Maori will also suffer as our country will fail in every aspect | Colin |
| not even slightly neutral! | Giles |
| No way is the public service politically neutral. Senior management are incompetent without business oriented bone in their collective bodies. The way they waste other people’s money (OPM) is testament to woke lefty ideology. Sack the lot of management and start again. There is some hope with sir Brian Roach as public service commissioner- he needs to be supported by ministers in wielding a big new broom! | Ihaia |
| Nope.Not since Dear leader Hells inflated the public services by 40% back in the day and spineless John Key let the Maori party sign us up to the UN indigenous peoples rort. | John |
| I know they aren’t. My lefty socialist sister is a ‘Policy Advisor’ for them! | Merie |
| They are very left wing and well entrenched | Allan |
| They are carrying on with Ardern’s agenda, seen clearly by the teachers and schools that ignore the directive to drop the Treaty stuff. Defund the school boards that won’t toe the line and you will see them change their tune. | Kerry |
| They need to be cleaned out, They think they are running the country | Fiona |
| we should follow the us model and replace department heads after a new govt, is elected. | Alan |
| Not even close to neutrality | George |
| Not overtly, but to an insidious level that allows ‘public service’ insiders to white-ant Govt initiatives and effectively neutralise the Govt’s effectiveness. | Francis |
| The public services are hell bent on destroying this coalition and i believe that ACT and NZFirst will increase their vote share at the expense of Labour and more from the National. come election time. The Maori party will be gone. | Ken |
| Any individual public servant or a department who fail to comply with government directives should sacked immediately.As others have mentioned the Maori activist Potaka should be removed from the National Party. | Steve |
| It’s obvious from the actions of the Public Service who defy the directions given. Until this government has the balls to remove co governance and dismantle the system that allows the maorification of our now deeply divided country we will continue to see the rise of the radicals. | Lindsay |
| I have watched people I know in the public service slowly succumb to Wellington groupthink. This has emphasised to me the importance of having a wide range of people in my social circles, so I don’t succumb to groupthink in my field. | Julian |
| WHO in the govt. has THE GUTS to TAKE OUR NZ BACK & show GUTS to tackle MAORI IWI & PROTECTS | Cindy |
| NO! Our Government, even the current one, is still being influenced by Marxist Policy! This MUST STOP! NOW! They MUST do everything in their power to stop this Marxist creep into our Government and do it quickly, or we are lost! | Heather |
| The trough has too much cash in it!! | Alan |
| The public service administration has been sabotaging the efforts of this government since day one. Pre-leasing of announcements, criticism of policies and failure to implement said policies. Not unlike the media, the public service has its own agenda. Luxon was questioned on the media bias earlier in his term and he refused to act or respond, claiming ‘freedom of speech’. How naive when they were openly attacking! As predicted at the time, it has deservedly come back to bite him. This government has devised some good policies but have failed to follow through to grass roots levels. Simply expecting administrators to comply is not enough. The effectiveness of some ministries has been negligible because they have not taken control and followed through. | Martin |
| Definitely not. | Murray |
| Neutrality of the Public Service if vital and essential to support an effective democracy. | Kevin |
| NZ needs its own Reform Party now! This government has not read the room and is only tinkering around the edges. It thinks that if it fixes the economy it will be returned to power at the next election. It does not realise that we KNOW it will fix the economy. It always does after each Labour fiasco. It is not the economy that we want fixed. It is the treaty, apartheid and racism. EVERYTHING the maoris do is for money and power. Nothing else! | Gerard |
| Clearly any initiative to change from the Marxist groups is NOT possible due to the control they have | Peter |
| No – When government passes laws these people ignore it and carry on as that it does not exist. Fire then now! | Walter |
| Nor is the Justice Dept. | Dave |
| Not at all. They’re brain-washed by the media who’re motivated to distort by the corrupt Public Interest Journalism Fund. | Tony |
| Anything but! | Gail |
| absolutely not!!!! | JULZ & ALAN |
| Requests from Govt departments are in my view illegal, but many folks don’t see the inherent danger in blindly complying with them.. This further pushes the rotten arrows into our society. Wake up you blind Coalition fools!!! | ray |
| I’ve worked in the public sector and seen first hand radical views expressed in policy. | Peter |
| This coalition Government needs to grow a pair and do something about all of this crap once and for all, The ministers in charge of there departments need to tell their heads of there departments to change the letter heads, change everything to English and do what they are told or leave. i think we need someone in Government with BALLS that will stand up do what they say they are going to do instead of feeding us a lot of BULL. | COLIN |
| Definitely not!. The yes Minister and yes Prime Minister unelected bureaucrats have run the country for longer than we realise. The must be purged from all services if democracy is to survive as mut all those in the main political parties whose allegiance is to interests outside our country and not those who elected them. | Michael |
| Absolutely not politically neutral. It is as left wing as the media | John |
| HELL NO! | Sherrin |
| Sack the LOT and START AGAIN Thay are a CANCER on OUR New Zealand Way of LIFE | Bill |
| Axe all DEI /woke titled job positions immediately | Graeme |
| Definitely not and how much is the coalition govt been “captured” or do they not have the nouse to stand up and get rid of a lot of it? As a New Zealander I am scared and sad to see the capture being continued. Blimmin COVID was a tool to use to escalate it all. Never mind the vacc killed and is still killing people. | jackie |
| For sure the media (manaement of TV1) need to be replaced. | Len |
| Clear from the refusal of the Public Service to follow the Governments directives indicates that it is bent on following its own agenda. | Ian |
| I believe that there needs to be a big clean out in the public service offices of all the left leaning buricates. | Grant |
| no they are too far left | phil |
| The public service entities need to be gutted of all woke leftist bureaucrat roles asap. Each CEO needs go be on a contract that allows dismissal by the Govt without compensation so that they are loyal to the Govt of the day. Too many are still in office because of the difficulty in dispensing with them. | Mike |
| They are white haters and anti NZ | Wayne |
| It is plain for all to see that New Zealand’s Public Service is heavily infected with far-left ideology and lame wokeism. We need to acknowledge and celebrate success, and thus foster an enthusiasm for it, instead of cutting it off at the knees and dumbing down humanity. We are not all the same, never have been and never will be. Some are more driven and successful than others, get over yourself and deal with it. | Logan |
| Public service includes local bodies | Murray |
| I was a public servant but would be ashamed of being part of it these days. The coalition has squandered an opportunity (and broken promise) to dismantle the political opposition within the public service. Disappointing. | Dave |
| Completely captured by leftist ideologues | Frank |
| state servants have been socialist for decades, so has national party and obviously opposition parties. | pattie |
| Biased AF | Robert |
| Key and Finlayson started this rubbish and the communist Ardern embedded into the government bureaucracy. In the end the only way to “fix” the government is by the ending the employment of those that actively resist the aims of the government as directed by the electorate. | Hugh |
| Emphatically NO, time and time again they have shown their political bias. | Kevin |
| no way in the wide world are they nuetral when they keep marching to the racist drum | john |
| this is a brilliant article – you have said it exactly as it is – Adern filled the public sector with her spin doctors and activists | Anna |
| We need a mass clean out | Niki |
| Definitely not! Wish they were. | Lee |
| The entire public service is not neutral. To remote tentacles of tribalism/communism the broom must be wide & stout, starting at early education to the universities to the very top of government | Nigel |
| Some departments more than others | Wayne |
| A total woke mess | Chris |
| That lot is exactly what we have to get rid off once and for all. As mentioned by Charly Kirk: We are not willing to give up following the rules. We only can fight radicals with radical measures. Anything else is utterly useless against this evil. | Michael |
| It is not | Trish |
| The every day layman with even half a brain can see through what many if these public servants are doing and I am amazed that the politicians don’t call them out more often. | Jacqui |
| Elon Musk was recruited to identify the deep state and identify the damage it was doing and had done to the US economy, which he did and saved the economy billions of dollars. The same must be done in NZ to lower tax’s and make the ecomomy viable. | Rex |
| Maybe NZ needs to look at a system of replacing the top bureuacrats when a new government is elected. It looks like many of these overpaid larikens are sabotaging the coalition at every opportunity. That means achieving change is very difficult. | Charles |
| No Way ,they should all be made to re-apply for their jobs with New Contacts with severe Penalties ( being fired) if they don’t believe in being Neutral | Frank |
| There are too many instances over the past few years where our Public Services have shown bias toward so called “Political Correctness” rather than the problem which is to be solved. | Martin |
| The Coalition needs to grow a pair to stop the rot caused by 6 years of Labour mis -governance. | Dave |
| Doesn’t seem very neutral! They have definitely been swayed. | Jane |
| Obviously not , for many many years.Nicola Willis needed to fire at least 16,000 when the cpoalition took office . They are not doing the voters agenda. | Bruce |
| And neither is the Local Government permanent staff. | Anon |
| Our Public Service is NOT POLITICALLY NEUTRAL and should be utterly ashamed of their bias toward one sector of the community over all other sectors. | Barbara |
| 100% not neutral, even groups such as InternetNZ and the Geographic board has been hijacked by groups with their own self interest agenda’s. | Donald |
| Totally not and seriously needs a swift correction and time for a massive reset to pre 2020 levels. Shouldn’t technology make us more efficient Lets do it | Richard |
| New Zealand needs needs to wake up big time | Rob |
| Absolutely not neutral!6 | Jan |
| There are traces of bias against non-Maori in all directions. NZ as a proud and unified nation should only be seen as one country and one people, with many ancestors. | DAVID |
| An absolute disgrace. All CEOs of Govt Departments should have been replaced when the new Govt was elected. In fact we should follow the US and all so called Public Servants replaced when a new Govt is elected. | Jerry |
| No and it hasn’t been for years | COOKIE |
| All of them should be required to re-apply for their jobs when there is a change of government and/or local body | Maxine |
| Luxon, who is just a replacement for Ardern by the WEF ( they decide who wins the vote – farcical to even bother voting) should have got rid of a lot of the tops in the civil service and made them reapply for their jobs but he is complicit with the hacks running the country – he needs to go but who to replace him – there are so many Nats in the same cult. | Carly |
| The Public Service is riddled with Left leaning staff who are determined to block any steps by the current Government to improve our country. | Gifford |
| No! – the Coalition needs to go through all the Public Service departments with a fine tooth comb, identify the hard core Marxists and Jacinda suck-ups and boot them out! Next, formulate a Code of Conduct that emphasises complete political neutrality which those remainding have to adhere to – those that won’t or don’t get the order of the boot as well. We also need to stamp out Marxist ideology in all its twisted and toxic iterations across the board before we continue any further along the same downward path to ruin as so many other countries have since its inception nearly two hundred years ago. | Scott |
| national has to control the medea to start to eradicate last labour gov policy’s that are undermining good nz laws | adrian |
| Need a referendum on maori seats and apartied | David |
| They used to be back in the 80s. But these days esp since Jacinda the institutions of government have been well & truly been taken over by woke leftist Marxist activists & their followers. | Murray |
| The overall emphasis on Maori co-government throughout the bureaucracy reaffirms why I voted yes. | Bruce |
| No comment is necessary. The answer is glaringly obvious. | Dianna |
| They are left wing activists | Gerry |
| Of course they’re not. The core issue is whether the people have the guts to stage a counter-revolution. | Bill |
| they are still installing labours ideology | Les W |
| A lot of these Ministries are thumbing their fingers at the government. | Carol |
| Look at the family court, oranga tamariki | Sam |
| Absolutely NOT | Pam |
| You must be joking, asking that question. It is blindingly ovious. | Vic |
| A force unto themselves !! | Geoffrey |
| Having worked in it for many years the increase of leftist and wokeism attitudes from the staff, really frightened the bejusus in me. If you disagreed you were labeled a racist. That’s why I left | Mike |
| But most MPs are not trying to undo the damage and govt appointed boards are still Labour/Maori dominated hence apalling performance. Moari broadcaster head of TV/Radio NZ an example of control. Commercial stations better quality and NEWS focus not opinion dominated. | Margaret |
| Absolutely Not | Lesley |
| I have worked for a public sector organization for forty years which continues racing headlong into DEI, separatist race based ppolicy and wokism. The ship may have sailed globally on these ideologies but my organization has shackled itself to this Marxist agenda. | Bruno |
| It’s obvious the NZPS is biased to the left. It’s equally obvious that National has not done enough to get NZ ‘back on track’. It’s important to raise the He Puapua profile so that more people realise what’s happening. | Keith |
| Absolutely leftish/marxist and following Jacinda Ardern’s agenda. Politically opposed to the present Coalition | Lesley |
| Your article is accurate. We need to make sure our elected politicians hear our voices and do whet they were elected for. | Dianne |
| Lefty, woke, radical, seperatist, brainwashed. | Gary |
| The coalition should have made 30% to 40% of the Public Service redundant on day one. It was the countries one and only chance of freeing ourselves of servitude, now we are screwed for generations. | George |
| Government appointed officials in many public areas seem by their decisions to display a definite left bias | Bryan |
| Its already diverted with codes that National will not amend | Bob |
| not at all, they have lost the plot | Gerard |
| We need to stop all the race-based decisions. The government needs to step up and do the right thing for its people | Dianne |
| time to grow a pair and start firing – no matter what it costs | Mike |
| They seem to think that they are still employed by Labour and their woke idealistic unworkable ideas. National Coalition has failed to curb them, which is contrary to their election promises. Do they ever wonder why they are so low in the polls? | Anna |
| See evidence of lack of political neutrality everywhereur | Patricia |
| Absolutely not ! Nor do I believe most of the media is politically neutral either ! | Stuart |
| They are upper management is corrupt. I have had 20years experience then got out | Alan |
| On country, one people | Raymond |
| But they won’t be by this gutless Govt. If a Pakeha did it they would be in jail now. | Bryce |
| I agree with your article completely | Patrick |
| Drastic measures needed to bring back true democracy | Carol |
| They don’t live in the ‘real’ world. There is no sense of ‘critical thinking’ ; just turn up and or work from home and they’ll get paid no matter what. No incentive to do an honest day’s work for most of them! | Warren |
| Riddled with left wing ideology and aims. | Bryce |
| I saw on TVNZ 6pm News last night …. they gave it about 30 seconds’ coverage …. Ngai Tahu have taken over ONE THIRD of the ownership/tourism of the Milford Sounds. Two other companies share ownership. They monopolise the Kaikoura whaling business and the jetboat industry in Queenstown. BUT PAY NO TAXES as a charity. When are the People going to waake up? | Paul |
| Identity politics are forced into all facets of our lives,we must stand up against the radicals | Brenda |
| It is full of government pigs with their noses in the trough | Barry |
| They still work as if controlled by the left. | Fraser |
| its blatently obvious that the public service on the whole are obstucting the govt. I wish they had had a good clean out | lynne |
| Very clearly not neutral | Colin |
| Most of the NZ Public sector are tarnished with Left wokeist Ardern propaganda or He Puapua Maori agenda. | Wayne |
| They dont even pretend to be neutral. And the source is the radicalised Universities, who in turn radicalise undiscerning young minds – who have previously been groomed in the captured education system. Defunf the humanities departments, and maybe we will make som e progress. | davidf |
| Most public Service run by unions and they dont want to loose power. | Roger |
| WE desperately need a Farage to set up and run such a mandated party in NZ. Is Act and David Seymour up to the task? Current polling would suggest not? which is very unfortunate. Maybe Act needs a rethink of its policies? | Chris |
| Definitely left wing or activist | David |
| We will never have a proper governing system within our nation-state sovereignty until we decouple from those international bodies that are controlling us towards a no borders one world dictatorship. Any attempt to do so will be an utter waste of time as it will be over ridden by them as we have seen already. | Donald |
| no way | mike |
| They are too entrenched and have too much to lose to reform their behavior. It will have to be done to them. | Mick |
| Neither the public service nor the media are politically neutral and the coalition needs to ensure this happens | Gaye |
| Democracy no longer exists in NZ Just like I am not a Pakeha or European NZer. The rot has to stop and NOW | Noel |
| This action of working against this present NZ government was started in the NZ Public service back in around 2000, I know as I worked in it leading up to that period. | Don |
| While not part of New Zealands public service, Radio NZ and Television NZ are publically funded. They need to be defunded and new MSM organisations established to provide balanced news independant of political bias or interference. | Barry |
| The public service has never been neutral – and it is less so now ! | Hylton |
| definitly not ! Your poening gambit is absolutely correct . | Keith |
| Completely agree that Ardern, woke style socialism is still deeply embedded in the public service. However in my observations this is driven largely by grass roots culture, insane though that might be, rather than any well orchestrated plan. This wont’ be fixed without necessary confrontation, not just by Government but by ordinary people being prepared to express views that will certainly attract vociferous pushback. | Ron |
| A mate of mine used to be a National minister years ago and even back then he said he was continuously fighting the Public Service to get his stuff done | Mike |
| The public service is not fit for purpose. It should be radically downsized. | Trevor |
| The head of each government ministry should be held accountable after each elected government. That is; sacked or reinstated | Raleigh |
| I have written to ACT leader David on the radical civil servants and was told there was going to be a change next year! Hmm, will wait and see. | Helen |
| The vast majority of them are incorrigible wokesters. | Alastair |
| No way is the Public Service neutral111 | Denis |
| The swamp needs to be drained | Peter |
| As your article states Ardern has indeed imbedded her Marxist ideology deeply within the State sector & also the Maorification of every sphere of NZ daily life aided & abetted by our Marxist media. | Derek |
| The public sector is infested with leftist ideologs who hate New Zealand, democracy and freedom. The long march through the institutions is reaching a critical stage and radical surgery is now required to expunge the cancer before it kills its host. | Richard |
| They hacve been under Labors thumb for 40 odd years | Colin |
| Beaurecrats need to re-apply for their jobs after each election. 33 percent need to be sacked now. | Rose |
| biased for decades | Collin |
| They seem to have their own agenda and do not appear to serve the governing party ie. the voter. | Hugh |
| Without question. Legal ramifications should be taken immediately. The media has not to my knowledge commented further on this issue which is hardly surprising. Have charges been filed??? | Chris |
| Hell no, they are at the centre of this left-wing quagmire and unless we do something conditions will become much worse. | Don |
| It has not been neural for the past 10 years. During the period of the last Labour led government it deteriorated to the point of despair. What is so infuriating is that National was given a clear mandate to fix the problem, you notice that I referred to National in particular. While the Government has made progress in some areas, they have not, judged by the results, undertaken a clean sweep of the Government departments to meet the mandate given to them. Those defying the new direction need to be told to toe the line or find another job. I would support the later as they are unlikely to genuinely change their attitude. A message to our representatives – get on with it, you have already had two years. | chris |
| Definite not | Peter |
| Never has been… | don |
| This country was developed on democratic principles and the need to treat all citizens equally and with the dignity of human rights. Not hegemony and cultural Marxism. | Eileen |
| Not just the public service – the media also: bought & paid for. | Rodney |
| Most appointments are made by the political party in power | Andrew |
| Painfully obvious by the amount of schools who are defying the governments recommendations and are continuing with Treaty indoctrination | Lawrie |
| The long march through the universities started at least 2 decades ago, and continues to put activists into positions of unelected, undemocratic power. | Mark |
| It looks as if we will need to wait for our next government in 2026 to get things moving. Although the present government is in fact belatedly passing quite decisive legislation. | AndyE |
| Used to be but not any more | John |
| many senior public servants are deliberately carying oiut their own agenda deliberatly push Maori idealism that well lead to co-governance. No longer will we have one vote regardless of colour and race, Moari will have seperate laws and power | malcolm |
| Fact is fact…not interpretation. | Gavin |
| It probably never was – at least in an individual way – but now, since Jacinda [who is not living here with the negative consequences] there is a righteousness belief in DEI/Maorification, deeply held; unquestioned. Judges, lawyers too. I note Liz Truss talks of “extreme” environmentalists. I consider we are part of the natural world, not apart, and have trashed it all .. land, sea and air since the start of “civilization” – the coming together in large numbers in cities etc. and now far too many of us.on our planet. I am apalled by Shane Jones’ complete lack of understanding the fragility and beauty of ecosystems – Denniston Plateau, the Hauraki Gulf, support of bottom trawling, deep sea mining etc. This seems to make me an extremist. I, of course, don’t agree. He and his supporters are [extreme] in considering our present wants are fundemental needs. They are not. Reduce is the first of the three Rs. | Rochelle |
| That is how the NZ passport has been changed to Aotearoa. Brooke Van Velden has ordered it put back to NZ , but there are still many printed copies.who gave them that authority?they are not neutral | Shirley |
| Shame the coalition Government didn’t get rid of all the Higher Managers in the beginning-they will have had another 3 years to solidify the Ardern agenda and it will be almost impossible to change after that. | Carol |
| The majority are brainwashed idiots who can’t think for themselves | Chris |
| The Coalition is still pandering to the woke left | Dennis |
| unfortunately the public service is no longer neutral | wayne |
| Definitely not, nor is our media by any stretch of the imagination | John |
| Leftist to the core | Rhys |
| It isn’t neutral, it usually goes with the leftist view. They hate rightwing politics. | paul |
| So blatantly not neutral !!!! | Paula |
| And neither are our local councils!!! | Ken |
| No way. I feel the average person is unaware of the situation this country is in. Maimstreem media are leftist and tell you what they think you should know. With the elections less than a year away, it’s of real concern if this coalition doesn’t get back in. | Chris |
| Need to cleaned out and quickly | Kay |
| public services need to prioritise need, not race | jenny |
| No it does not seem to be! | Harry |
| Absolutely not. Most government department s are just thumbing their noses at the present government and are carrying on as if Labour, Greens and the Maori Party are still in charge. Unless a stop is put to this, New Zealand is down the toilet and will become just another Zimbabwe. | Anon |
| Definitely not. | Liz |
| No even close | Kevin |
| As long as the National Party refuses to deal with the Maorification of NZ and takes thadherence to the Treaty out of all employment appointments, especially the public service I will not vote for them next year. Its as if National is so focused on the economy, they fail to see NZ slipping into third world status in respect to our demographics. | Ken |
| sadly invaded by several PC rots | Robt |
| CRIKEY! If you believe that you believe in Father Christmas… | Bruce |
| Sir Humphrey Appleby would be proud of the bureaucratic take over. | Henry |
| ALL public servants, yes servants is the key word, whose salary/pay is provided by the taxpaying public, should NOT be permitted to vote. | Rob |
| No they are still following Adern’s rules and are radically left wing. | Helen |
| It’s plain that it is not. Those who were hires under Ardern’s administration should be given the option of sticking to the rules in the | Laurence |
| New Zealand’s public service is a disgrace to the country . The Coalition MUST deal with this issue NOW | John |
| It is clearly not! All the public “servants” (an anachronism!) who were hired under Ardern’s government should be given the choice to abide by the Code of Conduct or resign – no if’s or but’s. | Laurence |
| why does our coalition not take the axe to woke ideologies? | murray |
| Just look at the results of their work. | Warren |
| Sadly No . So many department heads are making their own agendas ,especially getting English back as the correct name was intended . Really National are severely lacking in enforcing what was promised at Election time . Obviously Labour and the crazy Greens are too far removed in la la land ,but if they made some good decisions ie dump the TPM clowns ahead of the next election ,may well finish a poorly performing coalition . Wake uo guys ,you risk so much by appearing timid and lacking backbone ,sadly we Kiwis will pay a terrible price if Labour gains the treasury benches again . | Ray |
| The National party lacks a clear standard of morality. It does not Govern for righteousness or truth. We need common sense as far as handling finance is concerned and the opposition parties lack that but why does National back away from showing moral backbone. Luxon said he was a Christian, but he fails to display such principals which should be first and foremost. LGBT influences are clearly being promoted. Why do we entertain transgenderism, for example. What has happened to common sense? Truth? Why is the tail wagging the dog. What has happened to sound leadership, which will always put truth and morality first? Why are we still allowing Maori activism to have an influence when they have no entitlement beyond that of any other New Zealander? The influence of globalists is clerly at work creating division through racism and L.g.b.t. tactics. The U.N. is a sick organisation which should have no influence on our National thinking and reflects blindness in its treatment of Israel whom we should be supporting. Balancing the books is only one of many responsibilities of sound Governance. How we live is the most important and leadeship by example matters. | Harvey |
| Labour and National are 2 wings of the same bird! they are both rotten to the core! Judith globalist Collins, wants digital ID for the country. this leads us all into a dystopian hell of complete control! our politicians whether left of right, are in lock step with most western governments globally! until people wake up and see that western civilisation is under attack by external groups that want full control, nothing will change.Centralised governance needs to be dissolved and more localized solutions found. Politicians have long forgotten that they work for us the people!! | lisa |
| May the internecine tribalism continue | Graham |
| No STILL far to much left over from Helen Clarke | Dan |
| Alot are definitely activists. | |
| As mentioned in writings by Dr Muriel Newman and Judge Anthony Willy, our coalition government has failed to show the spine to undo damaging systems put in place by Marxists like Jacinda Ardern. | Hugh |
| Only have to look at the poor response that Pr. Will Happer received from our national media! | Neville |
| This is pretty obvious from the way the Public Service operates. They and the media are good bed mates. | Ken |
| Just look at the results | RAy |
| Of course it’s not neutral. They are still following the regime dictated by Adern and Mahuta. They need to be told to shape up or ship out. | John |
| Yes agree with the above article in all the points made. | Rosalie |
| MFAT are by far the worst offender | Leee |
| It never has been within my lifetime.. But efforts by the current coalition to correct this have been far too weak. The Public service departments have been told what is required and have not responded. Next step, just sack the upper level of management and go from there. | Rod |
| Capture marxists | Thomas |
| Since I left education some 30 years ago the whole service but especially the unions (both of which I belonged to a different times and was an office holder in one) have become far more Marxist as have their policies along with ever falling performance levels. | Roger |
| No! very left leaning and it shows day after day | Laurie |
| Speaking to a high ranking NZ Police chief – no not Coster nor his follower; but a current official in Wellington he pointed out the police aim to be neutral. So many sectors of the Public Sector are not however. | Peter |
| has not been nuetral 45 years at least | Tracy |
| It is very obvious just like the media that they carry on the agenda from the previous government hoping that government will be back at the next election. Part of it is a lack of strong leadership from the current government. | lone |
| They undermine the government at every turn. Especially in education. They can’t accept a different government so keep with the old agenda. | Joy |
| I worked for IRD in 2014 – Labour party was pushed on us back then, I have heard it is much worse now. Non Labour supporters scared to open their mouths. | Ann |
| Has not been for a long time | Richard |
| clearly not neutral | Philip |
| They are far too left leaning | Hamilton |
| it is unquestionably supporting the left elements! Along with the public media! | Ron |
| They need absolutely to be squeaky clean impartial! | Brian |
| Not at all. The coalition needs to get to work and make some really hard decisions as we voted for. | Heather |
| The coalition government needs to STOP all race based organisations, committees etc from ALL government departments, it needs to reverse all race based legislation immediately. | Alec |
| Not it all. Liz’s and NZCPR’s comments are spot on and the course of action is clear. Unfortunately we have weak and shallow leaders in the coalition government lacking foresight and ability, with a few exceptions. Don’t underestimate the soft and deranged number of voters using preprogrammed ideology and empathy instead of factual pragmatic thinking. Our social fabric is weak and for a large part taxpayer dependable. Why do we have politicians running or trying to run the country, they are by and large incapable and inexperienced. | Leonard |
| It can’t be while it employs people. | David |
| I said when the coalition came into power they needed to clean out the public service Starting at the top and working down to The bottom but no such luck | Colleen |
| Like the media it has been hijacked by the Ardern Govt as they introduced, without public scrutiny, racially based reforms based on Marxist ideology. | William |
| The public service is heavily biased towards socialist and marxist ideology. Any new conservative government should fire all of them and require those interested in pursuing a non-political career, to re-apply for their jobs | Colin |
| It should be neutral, but clearly is not | Peter |
| We are in a farcical situation where the Civil Service ‘tail’ is wagging the Government ‘dog’, and the dog daren’t try to do anything about it. If this is not corrected, we are finished as a modern, democratic nation. | TOBY |
| On this country it would be discrimination to select staff on personal belief grounds whether by political or religious belief or racial grounds. | Lmax |
| The Public Service is loaded with infiltrated race-based activists and needs a substantial clean out to return it to political and ideological neutrality. | Hugh |
| Not in recent history! | Michael |
| They are anti-government and should be removed and replaced | Gavin |
| No most are not neutral as it is the nature of their job to vote Labour. | Roydon |
| N Z Public Service is anti-Co ilition and should be sacked and replaced. | Anon |
| They are distinctly pink | john |
| They are extremely biased toward instilling a socialist, race based agenda | Jim |
| It is so far left leaning I’m surprised it doesn’t fall over | Tom |
| Certainly Not! They are as biased as the Press. | Robyn |
| Anything but! That swamp needs cleaned out and made to obey Government’s policies | Robbie |
| They, along with the msm are very left biased. | Elizabeth |
| Accademia, the media, and the entire public service are disgustingly promoting the Ardern agenda. They are all in deliberate disrespect of and disregard of the instructions from the current government. Every CEO in every government department, university chancellors and bosses of state owned media must be put on notice that unless they remove ALL such biased stupidity immediately they themselves will be FIRED without further notice. | Steve |
| Bunch of self serving neo Commie spongers | Russ |
| If we still had a Neutral Public Service then ALL the Co governance would be dead and by. | Malcolm |
| I don’t believe in Santa Claus anymore! | HaPe |
| This has been a very obvious flaw for many years. There always seems to be a veiled intention to do the right thing but when it comes to being honest and acting honestly they ‘run for cover’ | Marga |
| not at all | N |
| far from it and this has become more apparent since that Dame abandoned the ship claiming total exhaustion and the current coalition left all the leftist thinkers running the country. The first huge mistake was Luxon bring Potaka straight from Tainui to the ministerial front bench. | Barry |
| Public servants once took pride in their neutrality. That’s not the case now. | Jen |
| I have seen myself within multiple government department. I now refuse to work for any Government department or associated service. | Malcolm |
| This government are sadly lacking in any ‘progress’ being made to force neutrality. The English language is most commonly spoken here in NZ, yet there is still so much Maori being forced on everyone. Taxpayer funded public signage, road signs, letters, etc. A classic example is NZ Rail, where Maori takes precedence in the signage & verbal information. | David |
| Corruption is rife in every field of endeavour in NZ. Cartels must be dis-established for NZ to recover financially. | Coral |
| A Marxist “plant” in our system… | Gill |
| HON Shane Reti must now be held to account. | RICHard |
| The public service are living in a world of their own. It’s time that they took the “service” part of their jobs seriously. | Peter |
| It saddens me to find that the coalition intentions to urgently seek remediation of aggressive He Puapua activism have been ignored at our peril. The Public Service has been allowed to expand its staff structure by almost 50% without curtailment and sensible budgets have been ignored creating major budget deficits for years to come. The recent example of 1000 teachers refusal to accept improvements in school education demands stern rebuttal. What leadership group has the strength of an effective commitment to overcome our appalling future prospects? | Peter |
| No it’s definitely race based, | Grant |
| No it’s not. And Luxon’s abject failure to even make a dent shows his party cannot be trusted with our votes next year. | Juliet |
| It is incredibly woke – and we’ve had enough! | Janette |
| How can the left be so organised in this almost world wide movement. It has to be the result of a common belief. Maybe because of the quite understandable feeling that governments can’t be trusted so people take control where they can. Maybe to their limited minds tribalism is a good idea?Then the same “power corrupts rule” takes over. It will be hard to turn this around as Liz says. The people of the world are so fragmented and don’t know who to trust. The reality seems to be that no one has viable solutions for the myriad of problems this overcrowded planet is trying to deal with. I’m not saying we are doomed but it will take a major kick up the proverbial to change direction quickly. | Casey |
| It’s hopelessly left wing – Marxist | Boud |
| It never has been but it now at its worst | John |
| Rampant socialists | Anon |
| Sadly it has been taken over by the radical left. | Terry |
| never, but Ardern really did a number on New Zealanders | Chris |
| Hasnt been neutral for many years, and Labour made it very much worse. Need to make Public Service job requirements very clear and sack those who do not obey the required impartiality. | Greg |
| They take their instructions from the waitangi tribunal not their ministers. | Wayne |
| NO, NO, NO. Managers of govt depts should be on 3 year contracts so new govts can either renew or be rid of them if not neutral or towing the line or not obeying govt laws of NZ. | Kevin |
| They should be, but no. | Kelly |
| Some maybe – the majority NO! | David |
| I think you have nailed it in this article. | Rod |
| WOKE, DEI, & completely in control of matters. The voted in ministers have little sway with this lot. | Simon |
| Far from it. | Grahame |
| Firstly the New Zealand Company is a private British Crown corporation for profit, which means there is no public service, we are slaves serving a corporation who have no lease and demanding we through taxes pay their debt, the people’s credit has been fraudulently and deceitfully stolen, so neutrality is not a question to be asked. | Gary |
| Fully agree with the statement. | Harry |
| The News Paper Plus TVs Broadcast Network is so much into the Left They have The previous prime Minister on as much as possible.Trying to convince everyone how Good they were.THATS why there’s no trustworthy news.While they keep advertising left Side of Politics.Stop all funding for broadcasting would be a great start. | Michael Andrew |
| At local level the racist attitudes are very obvious | Laurie |
| Absolutely not but they sure think they are! | Max |
| Thanks to Jacinda, too many extra bureaucrats owe their jobs to her. | Catherie |
| The Public Service in NZ has become left wing radicalised. We need an overhaul now. National, grow some b#lls and live up to your election promises, or next time you will be out. | Andrew |
| They continue to resist any changes | Alan |
| No.They are a joke.What do 20,000. extra civil servants do other than suck on the public tit all the while pushing their separist agendas for He PuaPua. All public service employtees should have their positions terminated and then asked to reapply. if their record is one of Separatism ,then there is no reengagement,simply turn the tap off.Or is this too hard for lluxon to do.?I have more than just a feeling that Mr luxon is part of the problem,and until he departs or is replaced ,matters will remain. | galem |
| Evidence of not being impartial should be grounds for immediate dismissal. Also reduce salaries to under 100k for all public servants | chris |
| All those who do not comply with being impartial in the current left wing body of civil servants should be removed from their posts | alastair |
| Not from what I read in the media far from it!! | Diane |
| No | Thomas |
| As previous .didn’t mean to vote yes Damn | Derek |
| There appears to be a culture of subversion of govt, hence popular, direction | Phil |
| 100% NO. It is glaringly obvious that the woke agenda is still in the forefront | Gareth |
| Absolutely belatant, perverse and totally wrong. Comunistic likely. | Derek |
| Poor leadership, lacking transparency and minimal accountability measures for Taxpayer employed people have caused this problem. We need to treat Government of NZ a bit more like operating a private NZ business. Especially with regard to the qualifications of the participants we employ and the commitments they make. | Andrew |
| That the NZ public service is left -leaning is self-evident | John |
| From what I’m reading the universities and schools the left are still pushing their racist views on our children with the government allowing this to go ahead | Chris |
| I personally consider the left and all there followers as brain washed idiots of very low IQ. | Paul |
| Hell no. Full of the red witches cronies. The coalition has not gone far enough to dismantle the bias and coruption. | Allan |
| NZ ceased to be neutral decades ago – starting in the 1970s. This is a very dangerous situation which could engineer the end of NZ’s democracy. | Mary |
| It is more than a belief, it is a stone cold fact, Sir Brian Roche should be be focused upon rooting out bias from the Public Service but all I can see is two wasted years in this regard. | Doug |
| No, the public service is not politically neutral at all. It is heavily left-leaning. They don’t even try to hide their hostility to the Coalition. We need to introduce a reform whereby a new government can sack senior managers in any agency just after the election, if they wish, so that they can put in place a team to carry out their policy promises. | David |
| Many of them are operating as if Labour is still in government. It’s no wonder that performance in many areas is lack-lustre. | Murray |
| Its a shocking state of affairs. They can’t even get them to change their websites to English for goodness sake. What hope does the Coalition have of getting them to do a decent job when Ardern’s activists are everywhere obstructing progress and threatening anyone who speaks out. | Paul |
| Reform is definitely needed, but so too, the Coalition should have carried out their election promise to cut the size of the bureaucracy. What they have actually done is pathetic. | Hillary |
| Apart from one or two departments, the State bureaucracy is as left-leaning as they come. It is time for a Deep State cleanout. | Bill |