THE OBSERVER: Most of the government’s social restrictions and social welfare measures carry a high risk of being strangled in their own red tape even as the public service struggles to implement them, writes Verona Burgess.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is sorry. He’s very, very sorry about the crash of the Centrelink computer system and the queues of desperate unemployed people lining up outside service centres to register. And he’s very grateful to the Australian Public Service. You bet he is.
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