A more efficient public sector
Some people regard this as bad news: The Ministry of Social Development aims to cut its staff of 9500 by 5 per cent (475) over the next four years by automating some processes and allowing people to...
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I blogged last month, re Victoria Stevens: She managed to wrestle with Police after barking like a dog and swearing in front of the widow of the man her son is accussed of murdering. So I am forced to...
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The Dom Post reports: The pornographic connotations of the word “teen” are stopping emails from reaching the government department responsible for youth issues. The Social Development Ministry is...
View ArticleCommunity Max
Stuff has a couple of stories on government funded community max schemes, where the outcomes have been very dubious – catching horses to release them again, and a Maori Internet business directory...
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Simon Collins at NZ Herald reports: Housing NZ chief executive Dr Lesley McTurk has told the corporation’s 1100 staff that staff numbers will be cut by about 100 as the agency’s focus narrows down to...
View ArticleNg reveals massive MSD privacy breach
This is a must read story. Keith Ng details how you can access pretty much the entire MSD computer system through their public kiosks. We are talking sensitive details magnitudes worse than in the ACC...
View ArticleIra Bailey
Keih Ng blogs: The guy who tipped me off is Ira Bailey. He was one of the Urewera 17. He currently works as a system administrator, has a young child, and is not interested in being the media...
View ArticleThe MSD computer breach
Stuff reports: Social Development Minister Paula Bennett says security of computer systems is an operational matter despite giving earlier assurances she would monitor it. Few people who are not...
View ArticleThe MSD computer system
Keith Ng blogged on Friday on the MSD report into their security breach. He notes that MSD itself says the report is damning. He quotes the earlier report: The most pressing security issue discovered...
View ArticleSmall on MSD breach
Vernon Small writes: So four lowly ranked heads are on the block over the unforgivable security lapse at the Social Development Ministry. As an interim step, it is a reasonable response to the...
View ArticleHeads must roll
David Fisher at NZ Herald reports: The security review into problems at the public computer kiosks run by the Social Development ministry raised identical problems to those exposed by a blogger 18...
View ArticleTax and welfare debt
Laura Walters at Stuff reports: Government agencies are more likely to write off unpaid tax than welfare debt, new research shows. Victoria University accounting and commercial law associate professor...
View ArticleWorksafe’s prosecution
Stuff reports: WorkSafe NZ has laid a charge against the Ministry of Social Development over the shooting at its Ashburton office in September in which two Work and Income staff were killed and another...
View ArticleA more efficient public sector
Some people regard this as bad news: The Ministry of Social Development aims to cut its staff of 9500 by 5 per cent (475) over the next four years by automating some processes and allowing people to...
View ArticleGood
I blogged last month, re Victoria Stevens: She managed to wrestle with Police after barking like a dog and swearing in front of the widow of the man her son is accussed of murdering. So I am forced to...
View ArticleSilly filters
The Dom Post reports: The pornographic connotations of the word “teen” are stopping emails from reaching the government department responsible for youth issues. The Social Development Ministry is...
View ArticleCommunity Max
Stuff has a couple of stories on government funded community max schemes, where the outcomes have been very dubious – catching horses to release them again, and a Maori Internet business directory...
View ArticleA sensible move
Simon Collins at NZ Herald reports: Housing NZ chief executive Dr Lesley McTurk has told the corporation’s 1100 staff that staff numbers will be cut by about 100 as the agency’s focus narrows down to...
View ArticleNg reveals massive MSD privacy breach
This is a must read story. Keith Ng details how you can access pretty much the entire MSD computer system through their public kiosks. We are talking sensitive details magnitudes worse than in the ACC...
View ArticleIra Bailey
Keih Ng blogs: The guy who tipped me off is Ira Bailey. He was one of the Urewera 17. He currently works as a system administrator, has a young child, and is not interested in being the media...
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