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Paddy Gourley

Paddy Gourley

Brisbane Times

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Mike Pezzullo and the Murdoch comedy company

Mike Pezzullo and the Murdoch comedy company
19.02.2025 5

Pearls and Irritations

Paddy Gourley

Public servants’ pay: Lambie’s on the money

05.02.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Paddy Gourley

Hugh White is stirring the China pot again

30.01.2025 20

Pearls and Irritations

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Elitists touched up by one of their own – The Callick case

21.01.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

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Rumours of ASPI’s death are exaggerated

When a review of Commonwealth funding of “strategic policy work”, together with the government’s response, was released just before Christmas, the...

06.01.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

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Gina Rinehart, Kim Williams and the ABC

The Iron Ore Lady, Gina Rinehart, wants to reduce taxes and government spending to help the less fortunate. As part of her Grand Program, she’d...

29.12.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Paddy Gourley

The Australian Public Service and the perils of Trumpism

“The first thing we’ll do is sack those 36000 public servants in Canberra” – David Littleproud, leader of Australia’s National Party. Donald...

13.12.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

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Think integrity can fix all the APS's deficiencies? It can't

What's to be made of an Issues paper from the Public Service Commission, grandly titled "APS reform agenda stage 2 integrity reforms", now out for...

17.11.2024 3

Canberra Times

Paddy Gourley

The bell has tolled for Pezzullo’s gong

It may be that in his post-Public Service life Mr Mike Pezzullo has been watching lots of classic films. When asked about the recent stripping of...

21.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Paddy Gourley

Could Albanese do better with less help?

Senior political office is a hazardous place where job security can be fortuitous. A few jump before things sour although the temptations to hang...

17.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Paddy Gourley

Pezzullo's Home Affairs ideas belong in another world

As the Department of Home Affairs totters towards its seventh birthday, Mike Pezzullo, a former secretary of the Department, has attempted to...

06.10.2024 4

Canberra Times

Paddy Gourley

Messing up the sense of the census

It’s hard to imagine how the government could have made a bigger mess of questions about gender identity and sexual orientation for the 2026...

07.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Paddy Gourley

A timid PM, frozen in the glare of the Keating headlights

When the former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, recently claimed that Australia was losing its “strategic autonomy” and turning into “the 51st...

13.08.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

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ASIO, Burgess and the miasma of spookdom

Collecting, sifting and presenting information on national security is not the toughest job in the world although it can be tricky. There are now...

09.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Paddy Gourley

When elected the Albanese Government inherited a federal public service rather like a semi-regurgitated dog’s breakfast

Attempts have been made to tidy things up but too much reliance has been place on administrative measures rather than the solidity of new or...

02.08.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

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“Ill-begotten siblings”: Australia and the United States of America

Allan Behm has been about a bit. For 30 years he had important jobs in the federal public service where for a time he was pleased to be head of the...

25.07.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

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