you have called for 95% of the public service to be sacked!
Paul1405,
Yes and, I stand by that ! The evidence for this need is all around us.

As for your claims re; There goes great numbers of .... You're as per usual not getting the point due to your mentality.
Let's try again, how'd doing away with people who aren't interested in their work affect all these "great numbers of" if we replace them with Public Servants who will do their job ?
Get this into your thick Union skull, I'm advocating as is Hasbeen, to remove non performers NOT the positions ! Demoting the many useless would provide thousands upon thousands of jobs for people with integrity & a sense of responsibility !
If you don't want to lose your cushy number, Perform !

Amazing one old bloke says; "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."

Then another old bloke when told he wants 95% of the public service to be sacked!, he agrees; "Yes and, I ( Indyvidual) stand by that! The evidence for this need is all around us."

In nether case did they offer any sort of qualifies to their unequivocal statements, although Indy is now trying to use weasel words as he realises how stupid their ideas are. Hassy is probably still on one of his extended nanny naps, might pop in later with another one of his gems, like lets nuk Pakistan as he has said before!

I would recommend a booking at the 'Shady Pines' Retirement Home asap is in order for both of these fellas, suffering from some form of old age delusion.

Remember fellas if they introduce your plans, there goes your fortnightly old age welfare payments, no public servants to stick taxpayer money into the bank for you, then you would be up sh!t creek!

Paul1405,
What exactly then would you do with non performing Public Servants ? Give them another raise & up their Superannuation ?
I'm clear about it as is Hasbeen that non performers on way above award salaries have no place in the Public Service !
The Public Service Union needs to put on the spot why it is perpetually tolerating the Peter Principle !
If there is indeed an excuse for this they should comment publically on the situation. How many Australians actually believe our bureaucrats are not only grossly overpaid but also cost us even more than is morally & economically acceptable ?

Indy,

You have a distorted view of the public service, probably based on your own dismal failure in the short period you were a PS, before being terminated. Like in private enterprise, public servants are subjected to performance assessments and reviews, and those who fail to meet standards are weeded out. Now how about you justify your demand that 95% of public servants be sacked, and stop with the weasel words.

Thanks for the article Scott Prasser- adds to the debate.

With respect it's less about transparency and more about trust- but we trust some people more or less than others. Sometimes transparency leads to trust- but sometimes it leads to vulnerability and exploitation of the institutions. You could argue that objective reporting by institutions is critical in a democracy so that the people can make decisions in the interest of themselves rather than the special interests of politicians and special interest lobby groups.

The wise probably trust based on perceived outcomes rather than rhetoric and media.

This is especially recognizable when talking of transparency in the defence department- what the public knows the enemy knows. Remember the hebrew Warner Bros made "Snafu" movies- loose lips sink ships.

As Sun Tzu says "confront the enemy directly- win by deception".

But Australia has become divided and weak by multiculturalism and trust has been lost.

If bureaucrats had to spend at least 3 out of every 8 years working in private enterprise it just might introduce some private sector work ethic into our feather bedded bunch. With some work ethic we could halve the public sector work force,& still get more done

It might give them some idea of what it was like in the real world, which just may get them, top understand what their lack of prompt treatment of various requirements cost us.

Yes I know it is just a dream, but wouldn't it be nice if some of them did more than a days work a week.