with a bent against the public service in general
Paul1405,
That kind of retort is typical of guilty minds. No-one is against the Public Service in geberal, in fact most people concede that a Public Service is absolutely vital for a society. What is not vital nor desired are the hordes of bureaudroids, expensive no-performers who could not even tell what they’re actually doing all day. You need to start distinguishing between Public Servants & mere bureaudroids. Look at the education system for argument’s sake. Teachers can’t educate because you guessed correctly, the bureaucrats & droids are not allowing teachers to be teachers.
Also, we have Laws & we have lawyers who work against the Law instead of with it. The list of the Peter Principle lemmings is scarily long.

'with a bent against the public service in general'
What astounds me is how one is to look at the public servants when the level o discernment when voting for a political candidate is virtually zilch.
If a party decides to nominate a amoeba as it's candidate, the like minded party followers vote for it simply because it's the party candidate for the area.
The person can be a total moron and the electors will blindly vote for them, no questions asked.
When it's a public servant it's given, they're lazy and incompetent.
The voters aren't lazy and incompetent, it's the public servants.
So who and what do we have in Parliament?
We have those who were voted in by the myopic voters who are about as discerning as a silkworm occupied with it's cocoon.
The ability to vote for an independent requires a certain input and discernment.
I suppose the public servants are to blame for that as well

Indy,

On numerous occasions on this forum you have posted; "95% of public servants should be sacked" you have posted it over and over. Are you not man enough to fess up? Now! with weasel words you try to change, without apology, what you said. Only a total goose would post; "95% of public servants should be sacked." That makes you a total goose!

Special Delivery,
Our sparring partner Paul1405 is a perfect example why Public Servants should be exempt from voting.
Public Servants with integrity on the other hand should not be exempt. How to solve this dilemma to choose ? Introduce a Gap Year National Service & only those who served should be eligible to enter the Public Service. I firmly believe that without a benchmark such as a NS we’ll just keep wallowing along in the same sad way towards self defeat.
We need to work as a symbiosis ! The old saying “you scratch my back I scratch yours” should really be “you scratch my back & I scratch the back of the one in front of me & so on”.

Indy,

Of course you dogged it yourself, when you had the opportunity to do you bit of national service (enlistment between the ages of 18 and 35) you failed to do so. Why is that? You're a bloke who likes to impose a lot of harsh rules and penalises on others, whiles avoiding any such impose on yourself, a free loader! How about a Seniors National Service for the likes of YOU with your snout firmly in the taxpayer trough! You create a fantasy in your minds eye that you have been a positive contributor to society, but for the past 20 years you've been on taxpayer funded aged welfare! People like you are a net negative on Australia, sad bu true. the reality is if you went tomorrow Australia would be better off, one less snout in the trough. Many including public servants become self funded retirees, through careful management and thrifty saving in their working life they don't have to rely on the taxpayer in their twilight years, like those who pissed and gambled everything away, they ever earned in their life. Here's a test for you; On reaching retirement age we'll have a public servant do a "Piss Away Test" on the likes of you. Yep look at your previous work history, tax paid et etc then it; "Sorry sunshine you've failed the pissed away test, no aged welfare from the taxpayer for YOU! Go look after yourself."

PS Once on the forum you lamented that the pension rise wasn't enough to buy another schooner! Remember that cry?

Why is that?
Paul1405,
Just one more time just for you. Your God the Goaf abolished or rather sold out the NS for votes ! That’s how we ended up with people such as you.