The public service do not want impact assessable applications to proceed as in Queensland for the process reviews all policies and documents to deliver what the residents and governments have wanted for years. Impact assessment does not suit the weak politics of green labor and is very hard for them to corrupt.

A very timely article.

If Barry O'Farrell becomes Premier tomorrow, perhaps he should get Geoff Kennett to brief him on how he put the broom through the Victorian public service and statutory authorities. Geoff could be counted on to pass on some useful hints.

“O'Farrell's biggest challenge will be in imposing the will of the executive over the power of the public service.”

Greiner encountered problems with Railways; they were always years late with their accounts and did not respond to cabinet directives. State Executive Service (SES) was brought in to rein this in; senior staff are on short term contracts and are dispensed with if they do not satisfy their political masters.

Senior appointments are directly interfered with by ministers’ offices. Those appointed are increasingly party members or party associates.

SES, particularly in NSW, is now sycophantic to an extreme. They can not act independently of the Ministers they report to. They keep their positions at the behest of the Minister.

That NSW public service thumbs its nose at Cabinet is now a myth. Who benefits from keeping this myth alive?

Whilst ever the myth remains Ministers are able to side step responsibility, they merely claim the public service is being obstructionist.

What is this a smoke screen for?

The inherent corruption of NSW labor with its underlying cronyism and nepotism of Sussex st and the big business that it is in bed with.

NSW Public Service as a power machine ruling NSW? The service is now powerless, it has lost heart and it has lost hope. NSW Public Service has been reduced to being no more than a media backdrop unable to respond to the corruption of Labor governments.

What proceeds or not, what gets acted on or ignored is no more than what the Ministers wants dealt with. No public servant is in a position to make any independent decisions on anything.

Stop living with the myth the public service rules NSW; it can’t rule its own tea club money anymore!

Hopefully such a cleanout will begin with the Treasury.
Full of ignorant dunderheads, out of control, and to date untouchable.

Evan, “you are not whistling Dixie!”

Cabinet has been acting at the behest of Treasury for most of the past decade. Hard nosed economics based on perpetual cost cutting has been treasury’s mantra.

What society needs and how to deliver it has never been considered – just the mantra cut budget and ‘they’ will become clever and still deliver the same service.

Yes, start with Treasury but firstly O’Farrell needs to start by being crystal clear what outcomes are required then on that basis deal with Treasury.

No matter where or when, I advocate it is reasonable to consider it important to discuss the depth of claims that say, "The problems are multi-layered and interconnected."

Given all the different angles beneath this script, it is useful to keep an eye on who is chasing the "Broardway" curtain calls behind the headlines.

And why?

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