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Public service reform gets the Rudd treatment

September 4, 2009 – 6:34 am

From The Australian:
(Rudd) has asked Terry Moran, secretary of his Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to put together an advisory panel which will develop a discussion paper seeking ideas for reform by the end of this month.
Unfortunately the syntax here is confusing but I guess that it means that the advisory panel will be [...]

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“Helplessness” expert helps Canberra public servants

February 26, 2009 – 8:21 am

I love Senate estimates, Lionel Murphy’s great gift to Australian democracy. Long hours of tedium relieved by the occasional exposure of bureaucratic management folly, of which there is much. So I experienced feelings of joy, delight and unbridled enthusiasm when I saw the vision of some senior bureaucrats explaining why they had spent a million [...]

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