Ele Ludemann: From $50,000 to less than $1,000

Minister Brooke van Velden shows what can be achieved when common sense and practicality meets bureaucracy:

Kiwis told us that they wanted their Government Departments to be easier to engage with by putting English names first, as it is the language that the vast majority of the country speaks.

Ele Ludemann: Two questions public servants should ask

Is this the best use of taxpayers’ money?

If we do this will I be able to look any and every taxpayer in the eye and say I haven’t wasted a single cent of the tax you pay?

Just think how much better the country and the economy would be if every public servant asked these two questions about everything they plan and do and only did it if the answer was yes.

They certainly wouldn’t be doing this :