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Andrew Dickens: Our public service can do better · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Made of my and sorry, I'll start that again. A
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  Speaker 1: mate and I have a little joke whenever we screw up,
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  Speaker 1: either big or small, we'll look at each other and
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  Speaker 1: go It only took one goat. If you know, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But it acknowledges that it takes forever to build up
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  Speaker 1: a good reputation, and all it takes is one misstep
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  Speaker 1: to immediately undo all that good work. So New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: recently was told that it had slipped to place in
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  Speaker 1: the world reputational survey around fraud and corruption. We're now
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  Speaker 1: fourth in the world. We used to be higher. That's
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  Speaker 1: still pretty good, but it's not as good as we
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  Speaker 1: were before. The news that confidential data held by a
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  Speaker 1: government agency was inappropriately given to a third party as
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  Speaker 1: a very serious one. Maybe it was a misuse, but
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  Speaker 1: that's not the point. It should never have been released.
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  Speaker 1: It should not have been released without safeguards. Maybe this
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  Speaker 1: was not as dodgy as it seems, but if we
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  Speaker 1: let standard slide, then the next time could be even worse.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the right time to be seen as
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  Speaker 1: a wink nudge nudge sort of country. There's more than
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  Speaker 1: enough third world antics in play in this country as
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  Speaker 1: it is already. And when you combine that finding along
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  Speaker 1: with Brian Roach's report into the Civil Service that shows
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  Speaker 1: us to be over governed and shows our governance our
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  Speaker 1: civil service to be below standard, then the slow degradation
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  Speaker 1: of New Zealand's reputation is certainly underway. We have too
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  Speaker 1: many public servants and the ones that are there are
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  Speaker 1: making either stupid mistakes or dodgy decisions. So New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: can do better. That's the report card. For more from
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