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Gabriel Makhlouf acted in good faith and did not unfairly malign the National Party opposition in addressing his department’s dramatic failure to maintain budget confidentiality this year, the NZ State Services Commission has ruled.

A recently leaked recording captured Queensland Health director-general Michael Walsh candidly discussing why public servants find it hard to be so candid in public.

There is good reason to try to keep public discourse around Indigenous affairs policy balanced, rather than always focusing on the negatives, as the federal government tried to do when it presented the Closing The Gap report on Tuesday.