This site has previously lamented the gradual denuding of Australia’s public service, which has been stripped raw by decades of government outsourcing, waves of senior redundancies, as well as a preference for governments to seek advice from paid consultants, erroneously named ‘think tanks’, and political staffers.
The end result has been that the days of “frank and fearless advice” have gone, replaced by spin and bought analysis designed to support a pre-conceived political agenda.
