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Pyne says media has a role in public service’s consultant use

Economy & Industry

Christoper Pyne has said the media’s outsized reactions to small bureaucratic mistakes are a factor in the reliance on consultants.

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Old fiscal ideas are back, along with whatever creative new policies the public service can devise

By Bernard Keane

Economy & Industry

The government’s discovery that public servants aren’t good merely for implementing its diktats has got to stick in the craw of a government whose signature act regarding the public service was the knifing of secretaries deemed to be too inclined to think for themselves.

Trust crisis: can a big government still act local and involve citizens?

By Stephen Easton

Features

To earn back public trust, perhaps the “policy elite” need to get over themselves. Big government might be back but better solutions may also lie in more participatory, place-based services, co-design with citizens and collaboration with other actors.

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Pyne says media has a role in public service’s consultant use

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Old fiscal ideas are back, along with whatever creative new policies the public service can devise

Trust crisis: can a big government still act local and involve citizens?