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		<title>The era of Books Without Borders</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/the-era-of-books-without-borders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/the-era-of-books-without-borders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The differences between public servants and journalists</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2010/10/05/information-brokerage-and-citizenship-more-reflections-on-grogs-gamut/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2010/10/05/information-brokerage-and-citizenship-more-reflections-on-grogs-gamut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grog's Gamut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy over the outing of the blogger Grog's Gamut has now passed out of the hands of newspapers and the blogosphere and on to the desk of senior public servants, who have some interesting questions to wrestle with, writes <b>Margaret Simons</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</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>
		<category><![CDATA[public service]]></category>

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		<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>
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		<title>Milne: Leave Ken Henry alone!</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26195542-7583,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26195542-7583,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic stimulus package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Public servant, private citizen"? Not anymore. The Coalition has made the national economic debate all about Treasury Secretary Ken Henry, says <b>Glenn Milne</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A peek inside the PM&#8217;s office</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/national/working-for-the-man-20090918-fvem.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/national/working-for-the-man-20090918-fvem.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Katharine Murphy</b> spends 24 hours inside the Rudd batcave, meeting the notoriously industrious -- and overwhelmingly young and male -- spinners and staffers who keep the country running. ]]></description>
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		<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>

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		<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>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Public servants serve the public interest, period</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/public-servants-serve-the-public-interest-period/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/public-servants-serve-the-public-interest-period/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public servants have a direct responsibility to act in the public interest in all aspects of their work, writes former public service commissioner <b>Andrew Podger</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/crikey-says-45/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Preferential treatment for pollies&#8217; mates? Happens every day</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/preferential-treatment-proper-and-appropriate-for-elected-representatives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/preferential-treatment-proper-and-appropriate-for-elected-representatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Godwin Grech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politicians behaving badly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utegate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll let the non-public servants amongst you into a dirty secret. Government backbenchers and mates of the Government get preferential treatment from bureaucrats, at the request of Ministers.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/preferential-treatment-proper-and-appropriate-for-elected-representatives/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Godwin Grech: the loneliest man in the world</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/godwin-grech-the-loneliest-man-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/godwin-grech-the-loneliest-man-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Martine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dickensian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godwin Grech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Grech, a man of almost Dickensian visage and name, chose absolute honesty in talking about the Utegate affair, an approach that, unless you’re very confident in your own evasive skills, is probably wisest.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/godwin-grech-the-loneliest-man-in-the-world/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Utegate unravelling fast</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/crikey-says-25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/crikey-says-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godwin Grech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/crikey-says-25/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Events are moving rapidly in Canberra. Godwin Grech’s residence has been raided by the AFP, with reports that a “concocted” email has been found.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/crikey-says-25/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/07/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/07/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dodgy councils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higgins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Stockdale and David Kemp are running around like headless chooks trying to find a candidate to replace Peter Costello. The scenario that has them scared is that the ALP will preselect a &#8220;favourite son&#8221; of Higgins like Tim Costello or even Hugh Evans, and the Liberals will lose a large chunk of their base [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time for ALP to act on Indigenous jobs promise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/10/time-for-alp-to-act-on-indigenous-jobs-promise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/10/time-for-alp-to-act-on-indigenous-jobs-promise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Macklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scrap heap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory have been given an undertaking by the federal ALP to commute the death sentence hanging over the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) Program. So where's the action? asks Graham Ring. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/10/time-for-alp-to-act-on-indigenous-jobs-promise/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>MacCormack: Public servants have hands out for Kevin</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/07/maccormack-public-servants-have-hands-out-for-kevin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/07/maccormack-public-servants-have-hands-out-for-kevin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gary humphries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redundancies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/07/maccormack-public-servants-have-hands-out-for-kevin/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/26/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/26/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equine influenza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gross incompetence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Oakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbyists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You might want to confirm whether equine influenza is actually in Victoria. Apparently there is a property under quarantine in Ridells Creek, which I think is near Woodend. According to &#8220;horse people&#8221; that I know, it is being hushed up until after the spring carnival. Once again the astounding incompetence of the Department of Immigration [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/16/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/16/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apolitical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Pratt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why are the Fairfax board members flying to their board meeting in New Zealand in a private jet owned by Richard Pratt, given the pasting the Fairfax press has just inflicted on the self-confessed cartel participant? Apparently Pratt agreed to let the Fairfax board use the Visy jet before coverage of his admission started, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Canberra, a weird calm settles on the public service</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/03/in-canberra-a-weird-calm-settles-on-the-public-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/03/in-canberra-a-weird-calm-settles-on-the-public-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caretaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dofa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election commitments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phoney war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's less a phoney war than a phoney peace. The country is in a political twilight zone rarely experienced: the Government ensured it was prepared for an election weeks ago, but when the Prime Minister declined to fire the starting gun, it stayed in the blocks, unsure what to do with itself. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/03/in-canberra-a-weird-calm-settles-on-the-public-service/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Putting the poo bum dicky wee wee into Wikipedia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/24/putting-the-poo-bum-dicky-wee-wee-into-wikipedia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/24/putting-the-poo-bum-dicky-wee-wee-into-wikipedia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Andrews smells strongly of Roquefort cheese and hate. Or, at least, he did until some upright soul thought to reverse my amendments to the Minister's Wikipedia page, writes Helen Razer. ]]></description>
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