Dame Margaret Clara BazleyONZ DNZM (née Hope, born 23 January 1938) is a New Zealand public servant. She began her career as a psychiatric nurse and rose through the ranks to senior leadership positions at psychiatric hospitals and district health boards. In 1978 she became the Director of Nursing at the Department of Health, the chief nursing position in New Zealand and at that time the most senior position in the public service held by a woman, and in 1984 became the first female State Services Commissioner. She subsequently held top positions at the Department of Transport and the Department of Social Welfare.
In 2012 Bazley was made an additional member of the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest honour. She has continued with public sector work throughout her retirement and has a reputation for reform, transformational leadership and problem-solving.[2][3][4][5]
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Dame Margaret Clara Bazley ONZ DNZM (née Hope, born 23 January 1938) is a New Zealand public servant. She began her career as a psychiatric nurse and...
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behaviour by police officers led to a three-year inquiry conducted by Dame MargaretBazley. Her highly critical report was released in 2007. In 2008 there was...
that year. The Commissioners were David Shand, Peter Salmon, and Dame MargaretBazley. The Commission consulted with the public, including Māori, and, along...
service commissioner through the COVID-19 response. Quilter cites Dame MargaretBazley as her role model. Quilter has led and served on a number of boards...
Suffrage Centennial Medal. In 1993, Cowley became the third recipient of the Margaret Mahy Award, whose winners present and publish a lecture concerning children's...
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Paul Dibble DFA 2007 Peter Snell DSc 2007 Tumu Te Heuheu DLit 2008 MargaretBazley DLit 2008 Grant Davidson DSc 2008 David Russell DCom 2009 Alison Paterson...
and harassment. Dame MargaretBazley was engaged to lead the inquiry into the claims of sexual harassment and assault. Bazley's report was published in...
services as a Member of Parliament and Minister of the Crown 90 Dame MargaretBazley ONZ DNZM Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit 7 June 1999...
July 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 2006-09-04, abc.net.au Scheikowski, Margaret (13 September 2018). "No retrial over Bowraville murders: court". Newcastle...
Environment Canterbury councillors and replaced them with commissioners: MargaretBazley (Chair) Hon. David Caygill (Deputy Chair) David Bedford Donald Couch...
its Wellington national office in his memory. In 1940, Woodhouse married Margaret Leah Thorp. They had four sons and two daughters. His son, Peter Woodhouse...
Arnold LLD 2018 Bill English DCom 2019 Emma Kruse Va'ai DLitt 2019 MargaretBazley LLD 2019 James Belich DLitt 2019 Gillian Greer DLitt 2019 Matiu Te...
Dame MargaretBazley and took three years. It reviewed 313 complaints of sexual assault against 222 police officers, including 141 that Dame Margaret said...
Conduct launched by Prime Minister Helen Clark and headed by Dame MargaretBazley ran from 4 February 2004 to 26 March 2007, with the objective to investigate...
tax system. The Working Party comprised Arthur Valabh (Chair), Dame MargaretBazley, and Sir Kenneth Keith. The Working Party issued two reports on the...
to replace the elected councillors. The commissioners are headed by MargaretBazley. Local authority elections are held throughout New Zealand triennially...
Daily Telegraph. 17 March 2010. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Bazley, Lewis (1 March 2010). "Miranda heads Royal Television Society awards nominations"...
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