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The Government’s programme for improving efficiency and effectiveness in local government is currently being enacted.

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Better Public Services - Result 10

The Result 10 measure gauges the overall transition of government transactions to the digital environment by measuring the progress of 10 ‘indicator’ transactions across eight agencies.

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Editions of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star to August 1945 have now been added to the more than three million pages of New Zealand newspapers available on the National Library’s popular Papers Past website

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Review of Active Archives and GDAP

First bank goes live with RealMe

Better Public Services Result 10 - quarterly report

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Cost of the Royal Visit in 2014

Government Inquiry into Whey Protein Concentrate (WPC) Contamination Incident

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