In this exclusive opinion piece for the Herald, former Te Whatu Ora/Health New Zealand chairman Rob Campbell asks why there is hypocrisy in the public service.
OPINION:
I am not arguing about whether I should have my jobs at either Te Whatu Ora or EPA back.
That is not happening and I don’t want to work with the ministers anymore anyway. They don’t trust me and I don’t trust them.
But blatant hypocrisy should be called out. Yesterday a story emerged about an appointee to a Government investment board who called China an “enemy state” on social media just this week. His remark is being treated (from what has been announced so far) as a “personal view”.