Richard Pratt has acted commendably in handing back his various Aussie honours … and provoking that sort of generous sentiment is presumably the intention of the gesture.
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Paddy McGuinness: the fight for his epitaph continues
In the Weekend Australian, Bill Hayden expressed outrage at the exuberant critique of the late Paddy McGuinness in the pages of the Fin Review last week by former prime minister Paul Keating. That being the case, Hayden should explain why he sacked McGuinness from his staff in 1974, writes Alex Mitchell.
Workplace Authority head asks: am I right for the job?
Even a highly paid public servant needs reassurance sometimes, writes a Canberra insider..
What is needed for the Howard/Brough plan to work
Here’s what experience might tell us about the chances of success of the Howard/Brough plan for Aboriginal Australia, writes David Coles, former Northern Territory public servant, in Club Troppo
Pragmatic compromise in the public service
Creativity, pragmatically based and responsive to compromise, is what the country’s chief public servant, Dr Peter Shergold, believes is central to the attributes sought of those in those who prepare policy advice for government .On Tuesday night, on the 7.30 Report, we had a rare view of what that actually means in practice.
