Of course the board is appointed ‘with purpose’, the deputy PM says in response. Recent commentary by David Seymour taking aim at RNZ hosts, management and governors crossed a line, says Jane Wrightson, a member of the RNZ board since 2021. His statements, she told the Spinoff, were “distasteful and unnecessary”, and she had taken personal offence.

Jane Wrightson, New Zealand's retiring Retirement Commissioner, has called for cross-party political cooperation on long-term retirement income reform, warning that piecemeal solutions to superannuation policy are insufficient. In a farewell interview, she emphasized that NZ Super and KiwiSaver must be addressed as an interconnected system rather than through isolated electoral pledges, and flagged concerns about gender equity gaps and the impact on low-wage and Māori workers.