About the author Rebecca Douglas is a freelance writer based in Adelaide. She has been an industrial adviser, project officer, senior advice and conciliation officer and ministerial liaison officer in the South Australian public service. Follow Rebecca Douglas
Ministers and the public service: right in <em>The Thick Of It</em> July 28, 2014 By Rebecca Douglas Features Many a public servant would have caught a rerun or two of the early ’80s BBC sitcom Yes, Minister and had a chuckle at the