Bill English

New Zealand has been on a journey to better use data and artificial intelligence – or AI – to both understand the challenge as well as provide the tools to coordinate and act on wellbeing.

The Berejiklian government says state governments should be rewarded for pursuing economic reform and given back a measure of their sovereignty through reforms to federal taxation arrangements.

Business leader David Thodey will chair a heavy-hitting panel convened by the New South Wales government to review its financial relationship with the Commonwealth, having just spent much of the past year reviewing the federal public service.

New Zealand’s first ‘wellbeing budget’ was delivered last week by Minister of Finance Grant Robertson. As the second budget from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour-led

New Zealand wants to provide ‘integrated services’ to citizens proactively, by making life events like childbirth the focal point for joined-up government. Digital transformation and information sharing are the means to this end.

Reduced welfare dependency and improved social outcomes are the targets underpinning New Zealand’s social investment. The Centre for Social Impact looks at how communities and the government’s finances are faring.

INTERVIEW: New Zealand’s recent story has been steady economic growth and evolving social services — much of it linked to a government transformation program that relies on data, analytics and putting customers first.