Peter Dutton's so funny he'll tell you a joke about Pacific Islanders
“Frankly it’s insulting to Australians to just assume their support, without telling them the outcome of the next three games”
Dutton Says He’ll Need More Detail Before He Can Support The Matildas
The LNP strategy has been to edge as much as it can to Unitary Executive Theory coupled with the increased use of selected and preferred rather than independent consultancies. It became increasingly self-evident when over a decade ago the LNP refused to have their opposition and government budgets audited by Treasury. From thereon in the rot simply set in and accelerated.
It seems that the APS leadership, advising the Government on amending the PS Act, is yet to recognise just how important ‘merit’ is to a Westminster-based public service. It was at the core of the 1854 Northcote Trevelyan Report that began the development of a professional civil service. It is critical to not only fairness, non-partisanship and constraining corruption, but also to efficiency, effectiveness and overall civil service capability. Yet over the last decade the APS has lost sight of its central importance.
Source: ‘Merit’ is the forgotten fundamental APS value – Pearls and Irritations
It should never have been Privatized
Key points:
- CBA reported a significant increase in its net interest margins as the key source of growing profits
- The bank’s costs increased, including its provisions for bad and doubtful debts
- CBA analysis shows 3.4 per cent of its variable rate owner-occupier mortgage borrowers are cashflow negative at current interest rates
Source: Commonwealth Bank earnings top $10 billion as interest rate rises boost profit margins – ABC News
When a complainant in a rape trial makes public her opinion describing the way she was treated by police The Age reports it as “an attack”. When the description refers to the way the police investigators behaved it appears as if “they were doing their job”. Despite the fact that even the chief investigator disagreed with his team. Does anybody else see the inherent bias against Brittany in this report called “news”?
Brittany Higgins has launched an attack against the attitudes of the police who investigated her rape claim, saying they were disgraced by their own conduct, rather than the accusations of the ex-ACT chief prosecutor.
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