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flag 17 senior NZ DIA staff laid off; Taxpayers' Union urges further cuts to reduce bureaucracy.

flag New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has laid off 17 senior staff, each averaging NZ$152,000 in salary. flag While the Taxpayers' Union sees this as a positive step, they highlight that the department has added 477 bureaucrats over the past five years. flag They argue that further cuts are necessary to address the agency's remaining workforce of approximately 2,700 full-time employees and to achieve a more manageable bureaucracy.

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