The pandemic that saved the skin of the Australian Public Service ­– for now

By Verona Burgess

December 11, 2020

Mmmm, crackling…

COVID-19 has not only made a real prime minister out of Scott Morrison but may also have done the federal bureaucracy a big favour in 2020, says Verona Burgess.

A year ago, the bushfires were ramping up the conflagration that would swallow the Australian summer and threaten to consume Scott Morrison’s prime ministerial career. Then along came COVID-19, the pandemic that saved his bacon.

What’s more, it may have saved the skin of the Australian Public Service too — at least in the short term.

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