President's Report

Abstract

In his final Annual Report as ARANZ President for Archifacts 2023, Evan Greensides closed his report with the aphorism “change is a universal constant”. They were prescient and foreboding words for a 2024 that has seen momentous, sweeping and painful change
wrought across the New Zealand public sector under the incoming National/NZ First/ACT coalition government. The severest impacts
of these changes have been the cuts to the core public service felt in the form of job-losses, long freezes to recruitment and the cessation of many services during this time of enforced ‘austerity.’