Paul1405,
you have one really warped mentality ! Why don't you try if you can muster your two brain cells work together for a moment & see if you can build on Hasbeen's broad suggestion rather than perpetually be a time-waster !
I would like to see bureaudroids ousted for good to give way to decent bureaucrats ! To do that the PS Unions need to be made responsible for their indecent policies for protecting & overpaying the many useless !
The many decent Public Servants are denied the positions they could hold competently for the benefit of all.
Abolish the Peter Principle at once !

Indy,

"broad suggestion" there is nothing BROAD about it, Hassy was SPECIFIC;

"I (Hasbeen) reckon all public service positions should have a maximum term of 5 years, after which they should not be eligible for employment in any public sector position for a period of 3 years."

Now you come with the insults at me, and a load of weasel words, trying to distract from what's said. You are full of it! You either agree or disagree, its a clear cut statement

Paul1405,
Even the below average village idiot would realise that policy/policies require refinement upon a broad off the cuff idea ! And, yes to me Hasbeen's is a broad statement !

What is your idea on weeding out the Peter Principal ? Would you feel threatened ?

Indy,

In any large organisation, and some small ones as well, you are going to have mismanagement, incompetence, laziness, even criminal behaviour, that's typical where all kinds of people are employed, the public service is not unique in that regard. There must be oversight to ensure these practices and failings are minimised, if not completely eliminated. You have a personal gripe against the public service, and a general dislike of public servants, you have demonstrated that many times on this forum, no doubt attributable to your own failure when publicly employed. The termination of you as a public servant demonstrates there are workable mechanism in place to expunge the lazy and incompetent. Agree?

a personal gripe against the public service,
Paul1405,
There you go again twisting facts to veil your Peter Principal career. I don't have a gripe against the Public Service & I'd have thought that that was abundantly clear by now. What I do object to are the bureaudroids of your calibre not being shifted to position where they would be of at least basic use to society. I don't know how some of the heads of Departments can sleep knowing how many lives their underlings are allowed to ruin !
Are you one of them, you certainly are rather defensive of them !

Indy,

Many times on here you have called for 95% of the public service to be sacked! A ridiculous claim attributable to one having an unhinged mindset. There goes great numbers of police officers, defence force personal, even your local garbage collectors etc etc.