Newstalk ZB: Nick Mills endorses Initiative report calling for major government consolidation
Roger Partridge
2 September, 2025
Nick Mills discussed Roger Partridge's report "Unscrambling Government: Less confusion, more efficiency" on Newstalk ZB, criticising New Zealand's bloated public service structure of 81 ministerial portfolios and 43 departments.
Mills argued that The New Zealand Initiative's recommendations to consolidate portfolios and create mega-ministries represent common sense reforms that the government should have implemented already. Listen below.