Former Treasury Secretaries, Ken Henry and Martin Parkinson, have teamed up to deliver a damning assessment of Australia’s public service, which they believe has been stripped raw by decades of government outsourcing and waves of senior redundancies.
As reported in The AFR, both Henry and Parkinson believe that the capabilities of the Australian Public Service have been so degraded that they are no longer capable of giving “frank and fearless” advice to the Government, nor formulate robust policy:
