Bill English has been too conservative in reining in government expenditure. If he were confronting a bleaker fiscal picture, like the Australian government, I predict he would have done better.
Higher taxes pave the path to the magical 2014/15 surplus - and as a reward taxpayers receive ACC premium reductions and tax measures that are largely tinkering around the edges.
Women represent 48% of the public sector workforce, but less than 20% of public sector leadership, according to our Worldwide Index of Women as Public Sector Leaders.
