Creative New Zealand, or as it is now referred to in Ministerial releases “the Arts Council (also known as Creative New Zealand)” is to dump its many councils and committees and go back to its original form. That’s what you get when you have a minister with a working (he was chair of the arts board way back) knowledge of bureaucracy. So now 13 people on one board will make the decisions it currently takes 28 to handle. In a Tui’s moment the Dominion reported that this rejigging will not mean a reduction in AC (formally known as CNZ) staff. You can read the Minister’s release here.
