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Good riddance – Job well DUNNE
The State Services Commission recently announced that they were getting rid of the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Director-General Martyn Dunne, by retiring him. He will be replaced by the Corrections chief executive Ray Smith. The Coalition Government says the move reflects its desire to implement a more unified old-style public service. Ironically, Ray Smith’s Department of Corrections breached the Convention against Torture, by subjecting prisoners to inhumane, cruel, and degrading treatment.
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Half the fishery bio-mass killed on purpose
Page 8 - Marlborough Salmon Farm in Hot Water Page 9-
New Zealand’s hoki fishery under scrutiny
Page 11- Chinese owner fights access to Forest Park Page 14- Hidden Dangers of Pesticides in Storage Page 15 - Bring back plenty to the bay
Martyn Dunne
Smith described it as a last-option tool for managing prisoner’s behaviours. Government may be
thinking that this last-option enforcement approach, is what’s needed to clean up the systemic
criminality that, for too long, has prevailed in the fishing industry. But, MPI’s senior leadership team also needs to go. They have incompetently allowed devastation in almost every sector of our Primary Industries, and that’s to say nothing of the potential serious misconduct that the State Services Commission is only beginning to investigate. Interestingly enough the reasons around why Scott Gallagher, Andrew Coleman and David Turner mysteriously resigned from their highly paid positions when they were implicated in the skulduggery going on in the MPI at the time. What is the truth around these resignations? Where they heavily involved in the surveillance of kiwis through Thompson and Clark Investigations Ltd which the SSC consider to be extremely inappropriate? Of note is that Dunne gets retired a week before the SSC announces their investigations. With the extinction of crayfish from Area 2, Myrtle Rust, Velvetleaf, Bonamia ostreae in farmed oysters, kauri dieback, PSA in kiwifruit, herbicide-tolerant swedes causing cow deaths...... the list goes on. Like dumping and underreporting of catches, MPI’s senior leadership team are about as transparent as an organised crime syndicate. Rachel Stewart recently wrote that “they are good at professional spin and obfuscation, and all designed to make it hard to know where to point the bone”. Clearly that bone is Martyn Dunne, who managed the senior leadership team - ‘inglorious bastards’,
undisciplined, unscrupulous, secretive and arrogant. Dunne should be held accountable for destroying much of NZ’s economic development in fisheries and other primary industry sectors, and particularly any misconduct that occurred under his watch. National’s misguided mandate to double primary sector exports by 2025 has been a miserable failure. The previous National government must be congratulated on Dunne’s horrible track record
and the mess he is leaving behind. It’s just one thing after another. Dunne and his senior leadership team’s contribution to New Zealand’s well-being, leaves one completely bewildered: - Hiding the Marlborough Sounds Salmon virus issues; - Hiding the introduction of Myrtle Rust that could wipe out the Ma-
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