Partisan politicking more about being in power than finding solutions.
Party hacks and apparatchiks increasingly given preference for preselection.
Head office guys picking loyalists to
Partisan politicking more about being in power than finding solutions.
Party hacks and apparatchiks increasingly given preference for preselection.
Head office guys picking loyalists to
Rather than our public service providing services directly some of them are contracted out to firms that tender for the contracts.
Areas that this happens in are employment immigration detention centres
Of course there is always Freedom of Information which some determined people try seeking information.
Which involves a lot of form filling in cost then delays and probably much blanked out when you
SPIN CYCLE: SHOULD
POLITICIANS BE PUNISHED
FOR MISLEADING THE PEOPLE
NOT JUST THE PARLIAMENT?
6pm Sat 21 May / Auditorium 1 State Library at Ideas Festival
In the world
A couple of articles from today’s The Conversation including this one by Mark Rolfe http://theconversation.edu.au/forget-politicians-be-a-dictator-for-a-day-and-get-the-job-done-4363?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+November+23+2011&utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+November+23+2011+CID_c9708df829560bd59ad5cb5d09ad6bd8&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Forget+politicians+-+be+a+dictator+for+a+day+and+get+the+job+done
The BBC reports on a speech given by Alec Ross a senior advisor to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. In the speech he said:
‘As power is shifting from hierarchies to citizens and networks