Billions of dollars have been pumped into the public service, backed by the Labour government's promise of a transformation of key sectors including health, education and welfare. The problem, argues Danyl McLauchlan in today's Sunday Essay, is that most of that money is going to managers, analysts, comms staff and consultants, rather than much-needed frontline workers. He traces New Zealand's bloated public service bureaucracy to a political sphere that has become 'increasingly therapeutic rather than material; it's the politics of personal self-esteem, emotional wellbeing, self-expression, self validation, relentless positivity.

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