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The rationale for the book is very sound — few people have an insight into the work of ministerial staff, the role of chiefs of staff or even the relationship between executive government and the public service. I had no doubt it would be beautifully written and personally engaging, and it is. At one level it tells the story of the Rudd-Gillard period from within my office, offering an insight into policy-making and politics freed of the self-justification of political memoirs.

That comment, of course, does not apply to my own masterful account crafted principally by Mark Davis. But the real value and insight of the book works at another level altogether — it articulates for the first time:. Public servants become wary, cautious and conservative in their advice.

The best public policy outcomes are not achieved. Ministers will always have some form of disorder — although never evidenced in yours truly — and so it befalls a competent, intelligent and values-driven chief of staff to properly run the office.

What I learnt is that this is imperative in the achievement of good public policy outcomes. And this is what No, Minister is fundamentally about. For this reason I think it is a truly fine contribution to political practice in our democracy. People who wish to work in politics — particularly young people who typically populate Ministerial offices — have much to gain from this book.

Each President has accorded the NSC with different degrees of importance and has given the NSC staff varying levels of autonomy and influence over other agencies such as the Departments of State and Defense. President Dwight D. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson preferred to work more informally through trusted associates. Under President Richard M.

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The NSC meetings themselves, however, were infrequent and merely confirmed decisions already agreed upon by Nixon and Kissinger. A key purpose of the Council is to ensure that ministers consider national security in the round and in a strategic way. Common types of government ministers and ministries.

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Categories : Defence ministers Government ministers by portfolio Defence ministries. If this happens, the public service could end up more sidelined than it now seems to be. That would be a sad day for the public's interest in good government. And any fears about the public service now being more error-prone may be mitigated by a reflection on the record of the former Postmaster-General's Department, which once made up about half the staff in the public service. No successful charge of it not being-error prone could be sustained.

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Behm concludes his chapter on the public service ruminating on the need for a repeat of the Coombs royal commission of the s. It's hard to see how that is warranted. It took 10 years for the Coombs commission's recommendations to be implemented. The problems that now affect the public service could be attended to without the inevitably slow-paced procedures of a big royal commission. There are many obvious things that could be done to improve the quality of the Commonwealth's administration, for example:.

It's not often that former officials in Australia take the trouble to write a book about their experiences in working for governments. It's hard to think of a "kiss-and-tell" book from an official, as is so common in the United States, thank goodness. Even the great H. He has reflected with intelligence, balance and good sense on his experiences as a ministerial chief of staff and on his career as a senior public servant. He has produced a book that goes well beyond mere description to analyse, explain, draw lessons and make a great range of perceptive and clever suggestions.

No, Minister is an excellent contribution to the cause of better government. It should be studied by all ministers, members of Parliament and their staff, and heads of departments and their staff at Commonwealth and state levels. Public administration academics should do likewise if they wish to make themselves at least better informed. Paddy Gourley is a former senior public servant.

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Chiefs of staff: leading humbly from the back room. The Sydney Morning Herald. The Public Sector Informant : latest issue Ministerial staff have not been well served by academic and other commentary, much of which has been shallow and slapdash, error-prone and unhelpful. Let's consider a few provocations in No, Minister. Fixed-period contract employment for secretaries of departments could be abandoned and where secretaries need to be moved from their positions because relations with a minister have become unworkable they should be found another position at a roughly comparable level.

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Merit systems should be used to appoint people to statutory positions. SES structures should be refined; deputy secretary positions should be only provided where secretaries have unmanageable spans of supervisory control. There should be a more substantial central personnel authority in place of the Public Service Commission. As Behm suggests, the efficiency dividend should be abandoned, along with other arbitrary savings measures, to the maximum extent possible.

There should be a more substantial investment in carefully assessed needs-based training. The present pay-fixing policy, which is fraudulent, irrational and incapable of being rationally implemented, should be replaced by one that specifically seeks to place public service remuneration in a reasonably competitive position in the general labour market for comparable work.