2026-09-26 23:36 UTC
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@kauer@aus.social 2026-09-26 23:53
@pmcneil@aus.social I'm, not that close to Dutch politics, but I suspect that the reason other countries can plan and execute this sort of thing and we cannot is chiefly that their public services are not politicised, but ours are. For at least thirty years, but the seeds were sown earlier, successive Governments have been working on making the Australian Public Service into the supine and politically compliant structure it is today. Removing tenure, overtly political appointments and so on. It trashes any ability for the APS to work on anything at all independently of the politics of the day. In this we are very like the UK government and the US government. The UK public service is no longer anything like how it was when "Yes Minister" lampooned it decades ago.