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Paddy GourleyBrisbane Times |
In the oceanic commentary on the Bruce Lehrmann cases, little attention seems to have been given as to how he got into Minister Linda Reynolds office...
When elected in May 2022, the ALP government inherited a federal public service that had been debauched for many years, the damage reaching a high...
Under the Morrison and Albanese governments it may well be that the FoI Act has been more restrictively administered than at any time since it came...
A recent Essential Poll published in The Guardian proves yet again that silly questions often get silly answers. One of its question was “Which...
The Albanese ALP (Australian Labor Party) has become a true people’s government in the sense that its timidity restricts it from doing just about...
With the scalp of poor Mr Mike Pezzullo dangling from his belt, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald journalist Michael Bachelard continues to take a...
Well, if the cat is the referral of public servants by the Robodebt Royal Commission for code of conduct investigations now being dealt by the Public...
The politicisation of appointments to statutory offices has been an ugly scab on Commonwealth public administration for a long time. $0/ (min cost...
For the last few Februaries the Director-General of the ASIO, Mr Mike Burgess, has delivered an “annual threat assessment” by way of a speech to...
Gareth Evans ,former Foreign Minister and the former ASIO head, Alan Wrigley, are likely not the only ones to be dubious about the value of much of...
Accountability only works if information about government is readily available. And who doesn’t believe in accountability, at least in theory? ...
On 1 November 2023 the Minister for the Public Service, Senator Gallagher said “in the next stage of reforms” to the public service the government...
In the middle of November the secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Glyn Davis, and the Public Service Commissioner, Gordon...
The excessive use of consultants and contract labour was one of the most damaging injuries sustained by the Australian Public Service in the 10 years...
Of all the unholy public service messes inherited by the ALP government last year, t he staff remuneration policy and its consequences was probably...
What a fabulous trove the Pezzullo papers are. The hundreds of recently disclosed text messages sent by the Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo...
Commentary on the tenure of Secretaries of Commonwealth Government departments is becoming perilous territory as those wading into it continue to make...
The rehabilitation of the federal public service is a slow waltz – one step forward, one sideways and a couple backwards. To stretch the metaphors...