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Topic: departmental secretaries
There’s plenty of secret squirrel stuff about the 2020 Summit, reports <b>Bernard Keane</b>.

2020 Summit: More secret squirrel

Politics

Apr 08, 2008

Since its arrival in office two months ago, the Rudd Government has signed five-year job contracts with two departmental secretaries noted for their enthusiastic links to the Howard administration. It hasn't gone down well in Canberra, the seat of power. Here's why, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.

Rudd’s failure to clean out the public service has Canberra angry

Politics

Jan 30, 2008

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Tips and rumours

Politics

Jan 22, 2008

Tips and rumours

Politics

Nov 26, 2007

8

Australia’s constitution makes no mention of a prime minister. Yet John Howard is no legal fiction. He selects Liberal Party ministers, appoints the head of his own department, and approves the choices for all the others. Those arrangements leave Departmental Secretaries doubly dependent on his favour.

Yes, Prime Minister: the public service sells its soul

Politics

Aug 07, 2007

The Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) is putting the altruism of Canberra’s fat cat public servants to the test with an appeal for volunteers to spend up to a year living in a tent on the aboriginal lands the Commonwealth Government is about to take over.

Volunteer call for Canberra’s fat cats

Politics

Jun 26, 2007

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