17 senior NZ staff laid off by DIA; union calls for more reductions due to bureaucratic bloat.

New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has laid off 17 senior staff, averaging NZ$152,000 in salary. While the Taxpayers' Union views this as a positive step, they highlight that the department has added 477 new bureaucrats over the past five years, resulting in a total of about 2,700 full-time employees. The union calls for further reductions to address the ongoing issue of bureaucratic bloat.