Tag Archives: government
Yes Minister meets Alice in Wonderland
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read the piece by Myles Peterson headlined as above on the Fairfax National Times website. Peterson describes his brief time in the “public service rabbit hole” writing ministerial speeches for … Continue reading
Succession to the throne
It’s no secret I support the constitutional monarchy for Australia, but I won’t repeat the arguments here. This post is to welcome reforms to the laws of succession proposed by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Mr Brown has suggested equal … Continue reading
Turnbull’s ‘courageous’ politics
Every time a politician does something stupid I’m reminded of the Yes Minister episode in which Sir Humphrey advises Jim Hacker the proposed course of action would be courageous. Translated from bureaucratic language that means political death. It’s very hard … Continue reading
Government plans to censor the web
For some bizarre unknown reason the Australian Government is moving unilaterally to join China in censoring the internet. I’m not making this up and it’s not April Fool’s Day. The Courier Mail reports that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has hatched … Continue reading
Councils oppose corruption
This takes the prize for the worst media release I’ve seen for a long time. The headline is unbelievably: “Councils oppose corruption”. Wow! Do they really? It’s from the Local Government Association of South Australia. It would be more newsworthy, … Continue reading
Handy handout from the government
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is giving cash away, $10.4 billion in fact to stimulate the economy. The total includes a one-off $1000 payment in December for each child to families with dependent children. We’ve got four children, so unless I’ve … Continue reading
Government services online
I read earlier this year the new Rudd regime plans a whole-of-government approach to Commonwealth IT services. Labor believed the Howard Government wasted money allowing an ad-hoc uncoordinated system to develop whereby individual departments and agencies contracted their own services. … Continue reading
