Government Statistician Liz MacPherson is facing a contempt of parliament charge after refusing a select committee request for information on last year’s census:
In an unusual move, a select committee invoked a standing order compelling Statistics NZ chief executive to produce the number of partial responses were received in Census 2018.
This is not a partisan request, the whole committee is seeking an answer.
National state services spokesman Dr Nick Smith said the committee unanimously decided such an extraordinary measure was required after MacPherson again refused to answer on the basis it would require “extensive contextual information”.
“It is the first time ever that I have seen a select committee having to use its powers to require a public servant to provide an answer to a basic question.
“I can only draw the conclusion that Stats NZ has something to hide.”
This is public information. The refusal to supply it begs the question: what…
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Go, Liz!!! Keep the bastards guessing. Anyway, it’s rude to count people; we’ve all got names…..did anyone notice a problem when we had no government for a few months, while Winston kept everyone guessing?
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Yip, we could do without them all & save the country their bloated salaries no probs Steve.
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bloated salaries and bloated egos, know-all, holier-than-thou, pretenders and posers.
i’d pay them twice as much to go away, and fill their places with people who aren’t greedy, don’t lie just for practice, and come clean about the shadowy crooks who have been pulling the strings since Norm Kirk
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I believe their salaries back in the day were equal to a school teacher’s. Pre Rogernomics. And a year or two of their salary could purchase a house in Chch. Bryan Bruce’s doco mind the gap. Poor Norm wouldn’t have known what he was up against I guess.
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