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Death by a thousand bureaucuts : Comments

By Stuart Ballantyne, published 26/2/2026

When forecasts fail and rulebooks quadruple, maybe it’s time to ask who’s steering the ship.

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Amusing and on the ball as always.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 26 February 2026 7:11:33 AM
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As usual this bloke is totally ignorant;

"My plan to reduce the 2.6 million Australian bureaucrats by 90% was simple, just find people with better skills!" Really Mr Ballentyne the bloke who picks up your garbage, or the fellas who fix your power failure in the middle of the night, they're all bureaucrats according to you. Clueless, reduce by 90%, well there goes 90% of the police force, people like Ballentyne are big or law and order, they're usually demanding a copper on every corner to protect them and their money.

As for the weather my order of preferred sources are as follows;

1 The Bureau of Meteorology, get next day forecasts correct 90% of the time.
2. Madame Zorbic, if you come in sopping wet without an umbrella, she can gaze into her crystal ball and tell you it raining.
3 Stuart Ballantyne, couldn't tell you when the Suns shining.

BTW when he says; "find people with better skills" he really means cheap labour from Asia, maybe the Australian weather could be outsourced to a call centre in India.
Posted by Paul1405, Thursday, 26 February 2026 8:09:27 AM
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