Public and community service workers do work that is often invisible and taken for granted until not there anymore or we have to pay for it. Thank you for providing us all with safe food, income support, healthy homes, road safety, border protection, digital security, passports, safe work standards and work safety inspections, safe water testing, clean air....the list goes on. Your work is what creates a better future for us.

Our public servants are there for every crisis, every health issue, every natural disaster, every time someone is vulnerable and alone - the list goes on and on. If we don't invest in our public servants, we are not investing in Aotearoa.

The Public Service helps NZ run well and create great outcomes for kiwis. With cuts to OT and MOE kids are going to miss out and so are families. We need to invest in our country and a healthy public service is a great start

Public services are so important to everyone in Aotearoa! For those of you unsure of your futures, already looking abroad for mahi, or feeling the sadness of farewelling your colleagues- we see you and we are thinking of you. Here's hoping for a future government that understands and respects the people who put service of the public as a top priority. Here's looking to a future government who see themselves as serving the public, not personal or private interests. Thank you public servants of Aotearoa.