"If we want independent, lawful, merits-based appointments according to statutory criteria, then we should give the job to a permanent independent appointments panel. We already use such a process for appointing the Government Statistician (with criminal penalties for any Minister who attempts to interfere in it) ... Ministers cannot be trusted not to behave corruptly; we can fix that problem simply by taking the job off them."
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/12/unlawful-appointments.html
