Tag: APS
What always struck me at the time was that Mike Pezzullo was the most go-to Public Servant in the country when questions arose for Peter Dutton to answer. One wondered at the time, who was in fact the Minister. That was while Immigration was about to collapse and when Dutton took Pezzullo to Home Affairs it seemed necessary because Dutton was totally incompetent. There in plain sight it seemed Pezzullo for all intent and purpose was the Home Affairs Minister and not simply the Public Servant.
Journalists from The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and Sixty Minutes have at last exposed the efforts by Mike Pezzullo, Secretary of Home Affairs, to influence government in favour of conservative politicians and by insisting that press freedom be stifled.
Source: The despotism of Mike Pezzullo – Pearls and Irritations
The work of the “better money managers”
The Australian public service cohabits with copious consultants because of three hiring freezes imposed by Coalition governments over the past 10 years.
The Abbott government froze all hirings in 2013 for 18 months, resulting in the loss of about 11,000 jobs; the Turnbull government did it again in 2016, but more targeted – it only applied to a few departments, and 5000 jobs went; the Morrison government imposed another freeze in 2020 in response to COVID-19 that went for six months and resulted in the loss of about 3000 positions.
Source: Alan Kohler: The delusions and madness of crowds of consultants
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