You can’t make this stuff up: NATHAN REES will announce the most comprehensive overhaul of the public service in decades by merging 160 government agencies into 13 super-departments – but no one will lose their job and he is not planning to axe any of the agencies. Mr Rees will face accusations he squibbed major [...]

In a well-executed media stunt (labelled an ‘exclusive’ by the Daily Telegraph, LOL) the NSW Government has come up with an idea to try and carve out a future in the (mis)management of the state’s health system. Apart from being an ‘exclusive’, the stunt also has two other elements designed to give it media appeal: [...]

Every few years fads change in the centralisation versus decentralisation, as managers search for improvements in service delivery that also deliver cost savings. Most sensible people recognise that this combination of outcomes (better quality, lower costs) can only be achieved in rare circumstances (notably consumer electronics, personal computing). The debate around centralisation / decentralisation can [...]

From the Daily Telegraph: Ms Tebbutt was also reported to have said she would take on the role (as Premier) only if Labor by that stage had turned its fortunes around in the polls and was in a position of being able to win a 2011 election. Why would the ALP need a new Premier [...]

Minimal funds to fix Sydney congestion. Rees’ has been humiliated by his Canberra colleagues and the people of Sydney are the big losers. Rees hasn’t delivered, he can’t deliver. Every day he is in office is another day wasted in getting a solution for Sydney’s worsening transport problems.

A stunning admission: THE CBD Metro will run as much as 87 per cent empty during the height of the morning rush hour when it opens in 2015, the Transport Minister, David Campbell, has conceded. Campbell must be one of the dopiest Ministers in a very, very ordinary front bench.

Nathan Rees chief of staff, Wedderburn, is right, the NSW Ministers are hopeless media performers. Part of the reason for that is that for the most part they are dull, unintelligent and uninspiring people. But perhaps even more importantly they have nothing of substance to say. They are a strategy-free zone. The NSW Government is [...]

Publicly, former NSW premier Morris Iemma might be a happy house husband taking things easy in his post-politics life. But there is another Morris Iemma the one that is pestering Sydney journalists with his campaign to oust Nathan Rees and install former planning minister Frank Sartor. Iemma’s calls are so frequent and so purposeful that [...]

The internal goings-on of the NSW ALP Government have become so absurd that it is now difficult to read reports of these apparently serious power brokering efforts without laughing out loud. Who could make up all this stuff about factions, sub-factions, trogs, terrigals and the rest. Meanwhile, the state’s hospital system is apparently in crisis. [...]

A little while ago I wrote about my revulsion at the NSW Government’s decision to rip apart the Australian ethos around blood donation: ‘freely given, freely received’. Yesterday, Red Cross rang me in response to my email of complaint and said they had received ‘stacks’ of complaints and were passing them on to the NSW [...]