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The many reviews of the public service miss one vital problem

  • Written by: Christiane Gerblinger, Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Australia’s public service is no stranger to reform. In the past nine years, it has undergone threesignificantreviews of its policy advising capabilities, all of which broadly agreed that its policy advice tends towards reticence and needs to be strengthened.

While these reviews triggered reform processes to improve how policy...

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