Inadequacies Of State Sector Act Key Issue In Lashlie Case

“The key issue highlighted in the State Services Commission report on the Celia Lashlie case is being missed” claims New Zealand First Education Spokesperson, Hon Brian Donnelly MP

“What the report demonstrates are fundamental flaws in the way we operate our public service.”

Celia Lashlie was not an employee of Special Education Services. Nor was she sacked by them. The contract with a private company was terminated by SES because of her remarks.

The report shows she was treated as an employee of SES in day-to-day matters but as an employee of the contractors firm in dealing with her public statements.

“How can an ethos of public service be promoted in a system where much of its delivery is through contracted profit-making private companies”, asked Mr Donnelly “ That is the heart of the matter”.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>