The government has promised $3.9 billion in savings and a workforce that feels safe enough to speak up. It cannot deliver either without knowing what is actually happening. So someone asked. The Commission's answer reveals a system built to produce activity without ever producing the truth about whether it works.

Writers write. It is how we process, how we think, how we survive difficult days. This is my OneNote. The Department of Internal Affairs used it to remove me from my job.

Something that was never sent to anyone, never emailed, never messaged, handed over in a private moment of trust to someone I considered a friend, became the instrument of my removal from a government job.

I did what the speak-up posters at the Department of Internal Affairs office were asking everyone to do. I sent an email to Paul James reporting bullying. Within 30 minutes, the institution showed me exactly what that was worth.

What does it take to get a manager role in the New Zealand public sector without interviewing for it? Apparently, knowing the right person. This is the story of Lisa Gibson, and the questions her appointment raises about how your tax dollars are being managed.

Richard Ashworth was the General Manager. He chose me for the role. And he was the one person in my entire experience at Department of Internal Affairs I genuinely believed to be honest. This is the story of what he chose not to see.

75 percent of people who experience workplace harassment never report it. I was one of them. This is why.