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Public service unrest and bad sign for Turnbull government

Verona BurgessGovernment Business Columnist
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Australia will soon reach a decade of largely dysfunctional federal government.

The clamour of rent-seekers has never been louder and the coalition appears obsessed more with parliamentary games than the strict discipline of governing.

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Verona Burgess writes on News specialising in Policy, Politics. Verona is the Financial Review's Government Business editor.
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