PM’s trust and respect for public servants vital for the economy

You’d hope that one of the big things Scott Morrison learnt in 2020 was to have more respect and trust in his public servants. After all, they must get much of the credit for helping him – and the premiers – respond to the pandemic far more successfully than most other rich countries. What Morrison did right was take their advice.

This has robbed the public service – and its political masters – of much benefit from its institutional memory of what works and what doesn’t. The government prefers to get its advice from the young people with political ambitions employed to help in ministers’ offices.These young punks act as intermediaries between the minister and his department. Their great attraction is their loyalty to the party. They tend to be a lot stronger on political tactics than policy detail.

Where does a bunch of auditors and tax agents find the expertise to advise on quite specialised issues of public policy? They hire – at much higher salaries - some of the redundant public servants who know all there is to know on particular topics. The Libs’ paranoid tribalism blinds them to the plain truth that the public service takes professional pride in wholeheartedly supporting the government of the day, while suppressing their personal political preferences.

You couldn’t have picked a crisis more likely to bust the Libs out of their I-don’t-need-any-advice hang-up than the pandemic. There’s no recent precedent and it’s full of technicalities. Who thinks they’re smart enough to tell a doctor they’re wrong?

1RossGittins No worker's to pick up the the farmers growing products,Australia's are lazy,complaining to much. Pacific Islands back packers,work hard no complaints cheaper,working on high temperatures,do they at least are given cooler water?Why kilo of figs at gate cost $6 in Melbourne $30?

1RossGittins Ross - Bad.

1RossGittins Along with many members of the media. Accurate too.

1RossGittins And will annihilate Labor in the upcoming federal election

1RossGittins Go get them Scomo. Empty the swamp.....

1RossGittins Check all the language in this article... it’s not even pretending to be a balanced objective piece. It renders the point impotant immediately. Pff

1RossGittins The pubic service looks after the interests of the public service and their ALP masters. This has nowhere more evident than in Dan Andrew's Victoria. The public service is inept and incompetent. Only the ALP would take advice from such public servants.....

1RossGittins Public servant especially at senior exec level are in overabundance, grossly overpaid and add little true value to the taxpayer’s funding. Time to reduce public service by 50%

1RossGittins ...oh, the oversimplification approach, complete garbage. Divide and seperate. It is far more complicated than that.

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