Until a Government has the courage/determination to shrink the size of ITSELF – New Zealand has NO CHANCE of sustained economic growth – or excellence in any sector.
The size of the NZ Public Service workforce, as at December 31 2025, has just been released.
As opposed to the coalition saying they are frugal the lowlights are:
- Total Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) is now at 63,657. The Public Service workforce grew by 1.6% over the previous 12 months.
- The Ministry of Social Development grew by 2.6% to 9094 FTEs.
- Oranga Tamariki grew by 2.8% to 4713 FTEs.
- MBIE grew by 1.5% to 5892 FTEs.
- The Ministry of Education grew by 3.7% to 3976 FTEs – a very long way from the 2700 promised by National and ACT.
It would be very difficult to argue that any of those Ministries are high-performing. In fact – it is very easy to find data that proves the opposite.
For the 2024/24 financial year core government expenditure was 32.5% of GDP. A weighted consensus is that below 25% is healthy.
The percentage of GDP in New Zealand dependent on government spending is approximately 43%. The low for that statistic is Switzerland at approx. 13%.
New Zealand’s tax/GDP ratio, at 34%, is above the OECD average. It is also well above countries we can look at with envy … Australia 29.4, Korea 28.9, Switzerland 27.1, USA 25.2, Ireland 21.9, Singapore 13.7, Hong Kong 13.1.
As of December 2025, approximately 13.2% of New Zealand’s working-age population (around 427,236 people) was receiving a main benefit, marking a 12-year high. This means there is roughly one main beneficiary for every 6.5 people in the working-age population. Jobseeker Support accounts for about 6.9% of this population.
New Zealand’s recent productivity growth is dropping and per-hour output falling over 20% below the OECD average, ranking it 38th in GDP per capita.
The, also just released, GDP growth for the December 2025 quarter was 0.2%. It is very hard to get any genuine economic growth when the HUGE reliance on government spending crowds out the private sector.
It is an election year. Who will, with credibility, propose to shrink the size of government in NZ to a level that allows genuine comparison with the best of the OECD?
Just because the government changed, those working beneath them are still pushing those leftist ideologies. We need to purge them all, that should clear a huge amount.
Watch this actually happen in 2027 when the NZ Loyal Party gets into office and Parliament!
I really hope so!
The official polls are BS.
Wait for the real public sentiment.
That is, if thej won’t skew the elections.
And even if those are ‘ok’, Godzone still has to endure the bureaucratic parasites sucking on NZ producers.
Governments (mind control) no matter what its size are HUGELY problematic, not to be trusted, ever. The Corporate State is the beast system.
What about nepotism and cronies politics ?
Just follow the money and stock options trails!
Judith is a prime example, as was JK, Jabby, and those who leave Parliament and always seem to fall into jobs that have been created or held for them by the WEF PTB!
The 1215 Magna Carta was a Royal Charter between King John and the Roman Catholic Church. He gave the Church uninhibited liberties, rights and authority to have ‘Free Elections’ and allowed/authorized the ‘Church Military Orders’ the right to lease ‘infants estates, which is still in operation today. The 1225 reissued Magna Carta which gave the Roman Catholic Church the rights and authority for free elections evolved into Westminster Parliament. The House of Lords as heirs and successors of the Barons of the 1215 Magna Charta, acted as a final Court of Appeal.
Parliaments belong to the Church and Parliaments throughout the world derive from the Church. The laws that come from these Parliaments are really only for members of the Church (Knights of Malta/Jesuits) who are partaking in the lease and occupation of the land as ‘Legal Owners’ (Trustees). Trustees cannot make law, other than regulate other trustees who agree to join them in the lease and that law is called ‘Legal’. This means they have a duty as a trustee. A legal duty or responsibility is to determine that they are a trustee, in the jurisdiction of Equity law. They do not want the people to know this part of the law and duties taken on by trustees, because church parliaments (governments) breach them every day. All politicians, knowingly or unknowingly, represent the Church parliament and not the people.
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The whole thing is a scam, to hide the true unemployment figure, by creating “jobs” for the ineffective, troublemakers amongst us