"Our public service has been corrupted and been rendered completely incompetent and venal." Laura Tingle on what we've learnt from the Robodebt Royal Commission report #Insiders #auspol

End the Senior Executive Service contracts/Ministerial Service and return to permanency and frank and fearless advice as befits a Public Service. It is no surprise that those whose contracts/ promotion rely on Ministerial approval do Minister’s bidding. #auspol

That includes Auntie, by the way. #DefundTheABC

It’s as if none of these commenters has ever watched Yes Minister. This is why we should have as small a government as necessary. Instead Elbow has added 20k public servants in little over a year. Rinse and repeat.

As a once proud Public Servant this is distressing. I watched the erosion of the APS under the Coalition with horror: started with Howard in 1996. They cleverly (and cynically) undermined the capacity of @CPSUnion by shifting functions to contractors and agency staff. #insiders

Speers: ‘warning bells were ignored’ Tingle: ‘public service corrupted’ Mainstream media were complicit - no guesses who - they’re still at it. Prominent journalists were corrupted - they ignored the warning bells in their self interest. At least one is in that very photograph.

What you are saying is that we now need a Royal Commission into the @AusFedPolice…….They as an organisation either have a corruption problem or a governance problem or both….The Australian Federal Police was way too cosy and acted as a Mafia Enforcement arm for that pathological liar Scott Morrison and his mates at the Liberal National Party … #auspol #Robodebt #ChangeIncoming #Corruption #Insiders

I'm amazed Ita let Laura Tingle speak on this program. I give Laura Tingle the Ukrainian slogan #HeroemSlava, "Glory to the Heroes".

A key Public Service problem has been the creeping takeover of executive by the MBA philosophy. MBA is a capitalism-cult now seen as mandatory in the PS. It's resulted in short-termism, expert capability-stripping, asset-stripping, out-sourcing. All anathema to good government.

The stench of Scotty is about to roll through Canberra

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