I am challenging is your assumption that all public servants are corrupt and that acceptance of standard pay and conditions is rorting.
Cossomby,
Stop twisting my words ! I didn't say all public servants are rorting, I said there's a lot of rorting going on in the public service. As for hard evidence I suggest you open your eyes & ears & move around outside your comfort zone occasionally.

Talking about management overheads in central office as it were, how come up until relatively recently governments were able to manage with far fewer ministers, parliamentary secretaries and the like that is the case now?

It seems that almost every pollie who is on the government side gets some title that pays mega dollars more and a healthier golden handshake at the end.

I can't be bothered checking, but what is it, 40 or so get a boost? Then there are the committees and so on. Ye gods, if the private sector operated like that.

It seems that it isn't only the bureaucracy that has experienced a proliferation of top dogs to feed. Fortunately the taxpayers have endless patience, or do they?

Fortunately the taxpayers have endless patience, or do they?
onthebeach,
Well, it does look as though taxpayers are finally seeing some of the real picture hence the result of the last election. All that's needed now is to introduce a requirement for teachers to think education instead of themselves & our society will get back on track again. Once the Peter Principle is no longer used in public service promotion things will improve. One of the challenges is to make the sheeple see & work on improving their mentality.