Your morning Briefing: PM’s next ‘quiet’ public service revolution

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Hello readers. ScoMo’s next ‘quiet’ revolution focuses on public service, and Sun Yang’s Aussie coach slams ‘hypocrites’.

Portrait of Martin Parkinson, Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, at the PMC in Canberra on 24 July 2019. Picture by Sean Davey.

PM’s next ‘quiet’ revolution

Scott Morrison has signalled sweeping reforms to the public service and departments are poised for a cultural shake-up.

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‘Threat to living standards’

Our most senior bureaucrat has warned growth in Australia’s living standards faced a significant decline over the next decade.

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Boris mets the Queen; outside Downing St

‘Pol Pot purge’

Boris Johnson wasted no time clearing out 17 senior ministers in “summer’s day massacre” as he radically reshapes a pro-Brexit Cabinet.

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04/08/2012 WIRE: China's Sun Yang poses with his coach, Australian Denis Cotterell after winning the gold medal in the men's 1500-meter freestyle swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) Pic. Ap

‘Hypocrites’

Sun Yang’s coach, Denis Cotterell, says the star is as clean as his other great protege, Grant Hackett.

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Facebook and instagram supplied pictures of Bryer Schmegelsky (L) and Kam McLeod who they believe are suspects in the murders of Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese

Cops zero in on pair

The manhunt for the teens suspected of murdering Australian Lucas Fowler and his girlfriend shifts to a remote town.

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Kudelka’s view

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