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ACT Challenges Cultural Expectations in Public Service | Christchurch News
ACT leader David Seymour is unleashing a bold new agenda targeting public service culture, accusing a “treatyist religion” of hijacking government agencies and demanding they focus solely on performance—not cultural or spiritual expectations. His party wants to scrap “good employer” mandates, ban workplace funding of cultural practices, and enforce continuous vetting for child safety cards like Queensland’s Blue Card system. Seymour slammed the public service for becoming a tool for social engineering, mocked ideas like a “Māori way of cleaning,” and vowed to restore taxpayer trust—while…
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