The ACT party's public service policy released today shows it has no concept of why the public service needs to be independent of the whims of Ministers. "ACT wants to turn back the clock more than 100 years and allow our independent public service to be more susceptible to inappropriate political interference," said Kerry Davies, National Secretary for the Public Service Association, Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. ACT today announced it would amend the Public Service Act to allow Ministers to set three-year public performance targets for chief executives and set performance pay for them, among a range of measures it claims would drive better performance of departments.

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