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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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Poor Godwin Grech – a martyr to the cause of public service

June 22, 2009 – 10:08 am

Godwin Grech, a hard-working and intelligent bureaucrat, has fallen foul of the gap between myth and reality in the senior echelons of Australia’s public service. The myth, fondly recounted by the mostly faceless senior bureacrats in Canberra, speaks of independence, impartiality and fearless advice. The reality is that your career only progresses if you do [...]

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