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The use of external contractors has gone too far, but reform shouldn’t wind back the clock for answers. The challenge is to get the balance right.

It is dispiriting that the Public Service Act Amendment Bill now before the Parliament says so little about ‘merit’. Nothing about secretary appointments and terminations and only a minor grammatical change to clarify that ministers are not able to direct agency heads about individuals’ employment. By Andrew Podger Yet we have:

Australian taxpayers should be very concerned about the Albanese government’s plans for the federal public sector for three key reasons.

When the prime minister said this week that he thought “the former government stopped governing”, it wasn’t just rhetoric.