Comments on: Public servants serve the public interest, period http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/public-servants-serve-the-public-interest-period/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:54:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: AR http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/public-servants-serve-the-public-interest-period/#comment-32141 AR Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:47:31 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/public-servants-serve-the-public-interest-period/#comment-32141 Tough luck when it is the apparatchiks themselves who want something suppressed. Then the whole weight of the State comes crashing down on them, public interest or benefit be damned. Even Shergold, in his new incarnation, admitted recently that PS have a duty/right (he couldn't/wouldn't define the difference without distinction) to disclose when a politician (or other bureaucrat) is deliberately corrupt or (merely..sic!) culpably incompetent. Must be breathing all that untainted air since he left OPMC. Tough luck when it is the apparatchiks themselves who want something suppressed. Then the whole weight of the State comes crashing down on them, public interest or benefit be damned.
Even Shergold, in his new incarnation, admitted recently that PS have a duty/right (he couldn’t/wouldn’t define the difference without distinction) to disclose when a politician (or other bureaucrat) is deliberately corrupt or (merely..sic!) culpably incompetent.
Must be breathing all that untainted air since he left OPMC.

]]> By: Susan Timmins http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/public-servants-serve-the-public-interest-period/#comment-32094 Susan Timmins Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:07:11 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/public-servants-serve-the-public-interest-period/#comment-32094 Peter Timmins Andrew Podger is in the money here, as usual. Shergold is not when he (and others) tell us that unless confidentiality can be assured they won't write things down. There is little opportunity for a proper public debate about these matters, more's the pity. Peter Timmins

Andrew Podger is in the money here, as usual. Shergold is not when he (and others) tell us that unless confidentiality can be assured they won’t write things down. There is little opportunity for a proper public debate about these matters, more’s the pity.

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