Oops. NSW Pemier Nathan Ress has just lost Robyn Kruk, the Director-General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, the State’s most powerful bureaucrat, writes Alex Mitchell.
Bureaucrats
MacCormack: Public servants have hands out for Kevin
Kevin Rudd’s pledge to cut “bloating” within the federal bureaucracy will delight public servants. Razor gangs inflict cuts, and cuts mean redundancies, and for long-time public servants, redundancies are highly rewarding, writes David MacCormack.
Will the bureaucrats be happy to let Aboriginal Australia take over?
The irony of the PM’s rescue mission of Aboriginal Australia hasn’t gone unnoticed. Here’s a policy of helping a disadvantaged group to overcome a major social ill by using the resources and the personnel of the central government. No wonder Labor is not opposing it. It’s a good socialist policy.
