Opinion
The return of frank, fearless advice
The former Morrison government’s sidelining of public servants meant that Australian politics lost the benefit of their ideas and corporate memory.
Craig EmersonFormer Labor minister and economistCanberrans – or Ken Behrens as they have become known – are stopping me in the street, their greetings universally featuring the word “relief”. Theirs is a relief that the government of Australia is returning to the Westminster system.
On the day of their swearing in, ministers in the Albanese government were meeting with officials of their departments to discuss the brief prepared for an incoming government.
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