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Herbert Prochnow, an American banking executive and noted toastmaster, once described a public servant as someone who hires someone to do the work that they were hired to do. Former British prime minister Tony Blair thought that bureaucracy was great at managing things but not great at changing things.
Amid a new debate over public sector pay, analysis from
The Sydney Morning Herald and
The Age has found Australia’s top bureaucrats are earning vastly more on average than their international counterparts, with more than 25 of the nation’s senior public officials paid more than $1 million last year.
Australian public sector pay in sharp focus amid COVID-19 economic recovery
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Australian public sector pay in sharp focus amid COVID-19 economic recovery
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Australia: Victorian Hotel Quarantine Inquiry finds “failure of governance”
The Board of Inquiry into Victoria’s disastrous Hotel Quarantine Program delivered its final report on December 21. Genomic testing has revealed that the state’s second wave of COVID-19, which resulted in 801 deaths and more than 18,000 infections, almost certainly originated in two of the hotels used to quarantine returned travellers.
Predictably, the report is a whitewash. Justice Jennifer Coate’s recommendations call for little more than further investigation “as to the lines of accountability and responsibility between Departmental heads and Ministers.”
Justice Jennifer Coate during the hotel quarantine inquiry (Screenshot from public hearings)