Should the Children’s Commissioner be an officer of parliament?
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Designing a Health System for Health Care Delivery
A recent column was concerned that the next health system redisorganisation was about centralising control, without adequate accountability, rather than about how to provide better health care. There has gotta be a better way.
Read MoreCentralising Health Care
Is the consequence of the Simpson Report proposals for restructuring the health system poorer accountability to people?
Read MoreAccountability in Māori organizations
Existing legal and institutional concepts do not serve Māori organisations well. What needs to change?
Read MoreRedesigning the Reserve Bank?
Are Labour’s proposals for the changing the way the Reserve Bank operates sensible or nutty (as nutty as the current legislation)?
Read MoreSunday Star-Times: Can you look me in the eyes and apologise?
The Sunday Star-Times is very big on the need for accountability in others. How about it demonstrates a bit itself?
Read MoreCorrecting Corrections
The Department of Corrections is accused of putting public safety at risk, but with a huge workload and our swelling prisoner population, department staff seem to have been given a Mission Impossible
Read MoreFonterra's excuses don't wash, it's time to front up
Fonterra won't hold any of its own accountable for the contaminated milk scandal, while the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre says no-one's to blame for last year's canyoning deaths. Both lack the guts to simply put their hands up and take responsibility
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