To add, relocation of departments to country areas would also challenge the cloned public servant.

Are there any figures available on the number of umpteenth generation Canberra bureaucrat? They marry one another and even the bits on the side, male, female and whatever, have Canberra lineage too! Incestuous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwUp-D_VV0

leoj,

Ever thought of going into politics?

Foxy,

What a hypocrite! I give you exactly what you ask for, so you divert to an ad hominem attack on Joyce. You sound like the excerpt from the life of Brian, "but what have the Romans done for us?"

Joyce ran for the first time for New England against what the left assured us was a deeply popular incumbent Tony Whinger, and in spite of > $150m of labor pork barreling Joyce won in a landslide. The reality is that while Joyce is not popular amongst the latte sipping inner city dwellers, he is very popular in the country.

That Joyce has made the decentralisation of agricultural related bureaucracies a central feature of his election platform is also ignored by the left, probably because the concept of a politician doing what he promised is foreign to them.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Yeah right!

Keep up the good work!

Sarcasm?

Is that all that's left? No facts, no rebuttals, just school yard retorts?

Clearly you have no case to argue.

Dear Shadow Minister,

You wrote;

“Still silence on the $150m Juliar spent on buying Tony Whinger's vote in parliament? I thought you would duck that one.”

Compared to the one billion dollars Abbott offered Wilkie plus offering everything including his arse to Windsor? You are being a tad cheeky.

But these were different in that they were asset building, not shifting an entire department in a move costing 10s of millions of dollars, stripping it of talent, and doing it in such a shambolic way that the local Maccas became a temporary office for some of the staff.

I know we have low expectations around the behaviour of our politicians but this was naked vote buying to the detriment of the rest of the Australian tax paying population. If it were done by a Labour politician you would have been all over this rather than defending it.

It is this kind of elitist, born to rule thinking that will hopefully see your lot tossed out on their ear come the next election.