#slashing of nearly 9,000 public sector jobs

"The Wrecking Crew: How the New Zealand Initiative's Atlas Network Puppets Are Cheering the Destruction of 9,000 Whānau Livelihoods" - 20 May 2026

Corporate-funded ideologues celebrate mass unemployment while Māori workers and vulnerable communities bleed — and New Zealand's media calls it analysis.

Slashing public sector jobs the right move, New Zealand Initiative saysBut the Public Service Association called the plans an “act of wilful destruction” which would decimate crucial services.RNZRNZ Newsslashing of nearly 9,000 public sector jobsRNZBryce Edwards at the Democracy Project