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		<title>Is Labor&#8217;s &#8216;poor relationship with business&#8217; such a bad thing?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/08/is-labors-poor-relationship-with-business-such-a-bad-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/08/is-labors-poor-relationship-with-business-such-a-bad-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rr]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Labor apparently has a bad relationship with business. But what exactly does that mean, and why do voters not have a problem with it?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time-honoured rituals of regulation live on</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/02/time-honoured-rituals-of-regulation-live-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/02/time-honoured-rituals-of-regulation-live-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthur Sinodinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deregulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=262850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott's promise to slash red tape is a time-honoured Canberra ritual, but it's a hollow promise. And he should shake up his front bench to inject more policy nous into the mix.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Public servants: invisible heroes or easy targets?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/01/public-servants-invisible-heroes-or-easy-targets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/01/public-servants-invisible-heroes-or-easy-targets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition parties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gillard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party Movement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=243640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since 1990, the Australian Public Service has become more top-heavy, with a growing and male-dominated senior executive service and a corresponding reduction in the lower employment bands, writes <b>Dr James Whelan</b>, the public service program research director at the Centre for Policy Development ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/01/public-servants-invisible-heroes-or-easy-targets/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mitch&#8217;s new public policy paradigm is just the old one continued</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/16/carbon-price-minerals-council-of-australia-mitch-hooke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/16/carbon-price-minerals-council-of-australia-mitch-hooke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Industry Greenhouse Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic modelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minerals Council of Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Hooke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=241366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The public policy process has changed significantly in recent years, but not in the way our most prominent rentseeker claims.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/16/carbon-price-minerals-council-of-australia-mitch-hooke/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Measuring Moran&#8217;s legacy inside and outside the public service</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/05/measuring-morans-legacy-inside-and-outside-the-public-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/05/measuring-morans-legacy-inside-and-outside-the-public-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duncan Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Watt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prime minister and cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terry moran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=239534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Terry Moran leaves behind a healthier, more independent public service -- but the GFC was his key test.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/05/measuring-morans-legacy-inside-and-outside-the-public-service/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Productivity, public servants and &#8230; that other P word</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/07/productivity-public-servants-and-that-other-p-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/07/productivity-public-servants-and-that-other-p-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Gottliebsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terry moran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=233414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Gottliebsen recently suggested public servants had the power to significantly improve national productivity if they so desire. Anyone who wants to improve public sector productivity needs to find better politicians first.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/07/productivity-public-servants-and-that-other-p-word/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Public service &#8216;docile and unassertive&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/07/time-to-shake-up-our-docile-and-unassertive-public-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/07/time-to-shake-up-our-docile-and-unassertive-public-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regional australia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=176808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A senior public servant has called for the public service to stop being so "docile" and start asserting itself more in the national interest -- and given a backhander to ministerial staff along the way.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/07/time-to-shake-up-our-docile-and-unassertive-public-service/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Green Loans: the monumental stuff up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/30/the-new-gold-standard-for-public-maladministration-green-loans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/30/the-new-gold-standard-for-public-maladministration-green-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Loans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=175415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ANAO's report on the Green Loans program is as bad as it gets and raises significant questions for the Public Service.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/30/the-new-gold-standard-for-public-maladministration-green-loans/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>The whys and wherefores of bureaucratic blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/27/the-whys-and-wherefores-of-bureaucratic-blogging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/27/the-whys-and-wherefores-of-bureaucratic-blogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Ltd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=174509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first was a fundamental rule that every public servant must live and breathe: that your personal views must be strictly separate from your professional conduct.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/27/the-whys-and-wherefores-of-bureaucratic-blogging/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minimal change in the bureaucracy as the Canberra arrangements are settled</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/15/minimal-change-in-the-bureaucracy-as-the-canberra-arrangements-are-settled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/15/minimal-change-in-the-bureaucracy-as-the-canberra-arrangements-are-settled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=171994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's little change in the structure of the Public Service under Prime Minister Gillard.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/15/minimal-change-in-the-bureaucracy-as-the-canberra-arrangements-are-settled/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lessons in competence, Part 2: the need for speed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/06/lessons-in-competence-part-2-the-need-for-speed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/06/lessons-in-competence-part-2-the-need-for-speed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=169635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it came to competence, things didn't improve much in the Howard Government's final term. But while the Public Service was slowly improving its administration, the biggest problems were caused by ministers.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/06/lessons-in-competence-part-2-the-need-for-speed/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The red and blue: the real story of post-election briefings</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/27/the-red-and-blue-the-real-story-of-post-election-briefings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/27/the-red-and-blue-the-real-story-of-post-election-briefings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Keane on the Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caretaker government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hung parliament]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=167945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's nothing especially sacrosanct about the post-election briefings handed to ministers. They're the bureaucracy's effort to get ministers up to speed on what they need to do.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/27/the-red-and-blue-the-real-story-of-post-election-briefings/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>What does the Moran blueprint mean for public servants?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/31/what-does-the-moran-blueprint-mean-for-public-servants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/31/what-does-the-moran-blueprint-mean-for-public-servants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terry moran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The public service reform proposals put forward by the Moran advisory group this week are likely to see significant changes for bureaucrats, and sooner than might be expected.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/31/what-does-the-moran-blueprint-mean-for-public-servants/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Getting the Public Service right: the blueprint for a new bureaucracy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/getting-the-public-service-right-the-blueprint-for-a-new-bureaucracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/getting-the-public-service-right-the-blueprint-for-a-new-bureaucracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Public Service Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terry moran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia's economic performance, and the quality of life for many of its citizens, depends fundamentally on the Commonwealth Public Service continuing to perform at a high level. A new blueprint proposes how to ensure that.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/getting-the-public-service-right-the-blueprint-for-a-new-bureaucracy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gottliebsen: Giving the public service a serve</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Kevin-Rudd-Tony-Abbott-JSF-pd20100323-3SS56?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Kevin-Rudd-Tony-Abbott-JSF-pd20100323-3SS56?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garrett's roofing insulation scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joint strike fighter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=125426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's time for a serious shake up of the Canberra public service. Good policies are being destroyed by incompetent management unable to deal with new or large plans, says <b>Robert Gottliebsen</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Kevin-Rudd-Tony-Abbott-JSF-pd20100323-3SS56?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Podger&#8217;s public service: the threat to good policy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/podgers-public-service-the-threat-to-good-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/podgers-public-service-the-threat-to-good-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Podger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public service]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/podgers-public-service-the-threat-to-good-policy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Health Department Secretary Andrew Podger's new book offers an intriguing insider's perspective of how the Australian public service has both improved and regressed in recent decades.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/podgers-public-service-the-threat-to-good-policy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Decoding Rudd&#8217;s public service reshuffle</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/decoding-rudds-public-service-reshuffle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/decoding-rudds-public-service-reshuffle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Roxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Shergold]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/decoding-rudds-public-service-reshuffle/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Governments might appoint mates and fellow travellers to authority boards, and diplomatic posts, but Public Service Secretaries are too important for that.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The role of the public service: Crikey readers respond (with lots more on our website)</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/21/the-role-of-the-public-service-crikey-readers-respond-with-lots-more-on-our-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/21/the-role-of-the-public-service-crikey-readers-respond-with-lots-more-on-our-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terry moran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/21/the-role-of-the-public-service-crikey-readers-respond-with-lots-more-on-our-website/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following a speech from PM's department head Terry Moran, we asked Crikey readers to muse on the role of the Australian public servant. Muse they did ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Moran public service revolution is underway</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/the-moran-public-service-revolution-is-underway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/the-moran-public-service-revolution-is-underway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godwin Grech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terry moran]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PM&#038;C head Terry Moran has heralded a return to more centralised Public Service as part of an effort to strengthen its capacity for high-quality advice.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should our public servants serve the public interest?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/crikey-says-45/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/crikey-says-45/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whistleblowers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the role of our public servants? Should bureaucrats serve the public interest, or is that a task that should be left to those who have to answer to the public?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meat axe about to come down on the public service?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/05/budget-countdown-meat-axe-about-to-come-down-on-the-public-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/05/budget-countdown-meat-axe-about-to-come-down-on-the-public-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 03:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=55508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The “meat axe” promised in the election campaign was kept in the cupboard for last year’s budget. Has its time now come? asks <b>Stephen Bartos</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd looking for broadband experts</title>
		<link>http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25380534-15306,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25380534-15306,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geek stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=53335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government placed ads in newspapers this weekend calling for "suitably qualified consultants" for a study to determine how the national broadband network will be built, financed and operated.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Robert Griew: from health to education</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/15/robert-griew-from-health-to-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/15/robert-griew-from-health-to-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finn Pratt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Griew]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=51323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another refugee from the state public service has found himself a senior position in Kevin Rudd’s Canberra bureaucracy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Public service to become a Kevin 24/7 sweatshop</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/02/public-service-to-become-a-kevin-247-sweatshop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/02/public-service-to-become-a-kevin-247-sweatshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redundancies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Public Service, when management issues a general call for voluntary redundancies, it’s pretty certain large cuts are on the way, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/17/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/17/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[departmental budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[departmental systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search facility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bush's Iraq exit ... government ad spending ...  Dowding on other significant September 11s ... evil and seditious websites ... Pakistan ... The Chaser ... ]]></description>
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