Free + Frank Advice
Free and Frank Advice and the Official Information Act: balancing competing principles of good government
Article by Andrew Kibblewhite and Peter Boshier in Policy Quarterly, Vol 14, Issue 2.
- 15 Mar 2024
- 2018
- Best Practice
- Free and Frank advice
Free, frank and other f‐words: learning the policy road code
Speech notes from Andrew Kibblewhite for his presentation to the IPANZ seminar held 12 August 2015.
- 15 Mar 2024
- 2015
- Best Practice
- Free and Frank advice
A media perspective on free and frank policy advice
Presentation by David Farrar to the IPANZ seminar held 12 August 2015.
- 15 Mar 2024
- 2015
- Best Practice
- Free and Frank advice
Free and Frank Policy Advice Seminar
Presentation by Dr Karen Poutasi to the IPANZ seminar held 12 August 2015.
- 15 Mar 2024
- 2015
- Best Practice
- Free and Frank advice
Free and Frank Policy Advice: Some initial observations
Presentation by Dr Chris Eichbaum to the IPANZ seminar held 12 August 2015.
- 15 Mar 2024
- 2015
- Best Practice
- Free and Frank advice
What Future for Free and Frank Advice?
Address to IPANZ by Richard Mulgan as part of centennial commemorations of the Public Service Act of 1912. Held 30 May 2012.
- 15 Mar 2024
- 2012
- Best Practice
- Free and Frank advice
Making sense of Politicisation in the New Zealand Public Service
Politicisation, which is when partisan considerations get into the advice and operations of a non-partisan public service, is a perennial concern. Richard Shaw (Professor in Politics at Massey University) and Chris Eichbaum (Adjunct Professor in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington) explore politicisation in the New Zealand public service and ask what the recent Working in the Public Service survey tells us about it.
- 02 Jun 2023
- 2023
- Best Practice
- Free and Frank advice
- Political Neutrality
- Public Service
The State of the Core State: Is the Glass Mainly Full or Partly Empty?
The Working in the Public Service survey was conducted for IPANZ and survey partner BusinessDesk by research firm Perceptive in September and October 2022. This is the first of several articles that explore the findings.
- 03 Apr 2023
- 2023
- Best Practice
- Free and Frank advice
- Public Servant
- Public Service
Mastering the Art of Free and Frank Advice
Attached below is the transcript of a speech made by Andrew Kibblewhite to IPANZ members in August of 2016 on the topic of Free and Frank Advice. He was then the Head of the Policy Profession and Chief Executive of DPMC. This speech offers much wisdom on the subject of Free and Frank Advice, including but not limited to, “Tell Ministers what they need to hear, not what you think they want to hear”. “Policy advice needs to be fearless. It needs to be bold in striving for new and different ways of doing things…”
- 11 Aug 2021
- Best Practice
- Policy Advice
- Public Servant
Free and frank advice in an open government
Andrew Kibblewhite (Chief Executive DPMC and Head of the Policy Profession), Judge Peter Boshier (Chief Ombudsman) and Hannah Cameron (Deputy Commissioner, Strategy and Policy, State Services Commission) spoke about managing the provision of free and frank advice and timely access to information in an open government environment
- 03 Oct 2018
- Leadership
- Policy Advice
- Seminar
- Wellington