{"id":448964,"date":"2026-05-28T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:48:08","slug":"wellington-scoop-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448964\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington.Scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/graphic-scoop-3-1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/graphic-scoop-3-1-430x287.jpg\" alt=\"graphic scoop 3\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-180247\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by David Christensen &amp; Amanda Knox of Delta Charlie<br \/>Nicola Willis\u2019 proposal to sack public servants has stirred up enough political weather to keep commentators occupied for weeks. Fortunately, storms are often easier to understand when someone checks the instruments. That is where Delta Charlie comes in: less heat, more analysis, and a stubborn insistence on following the evidence wherever it leads.  <\/p>\n<p>In the third of our weekly series, we look at whether amalgamation would help to fix the financial reality for the region.  <a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/?p=180244#more-180244\" class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by David Christensen &amp; Amanda Knox of Delta CharlieNicola Willis\u2019 proposal to sack public servants has stirred up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-448964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}