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When former bureaucrats speak out: insight and resentment

By Jason Whittaker

News

A former ABS head attacks the agency's approach to privacy. An ex-Immigration spinner takes on his old stomping ground. When former bureaucrats speak out there's…

Menadue & Keating policy book launch

By The Mandarin

News

Many of you will have read one or more of the policy essays published earlier this year as part of a series on "Fairness, Opportunity…

John Menadue: making health reform possible

By John Menadue

Features

Health ministers may be in office but they are seldom in power, says John Menadue. The former head of the Australian Public Service, who also…

Vested interests and the subversion of the public interest

By John Menadue

Features

Lobbying now represents a growing and serious corruption of good governance, writes former top mandarin John Menadue. Departments need to return to being independent policy-powerhouses,…