Yes, I was late to the game, but I only just watched that ABC documentary Nemesis on the coalition government. Only episode 1 so far.
I don’t really care to comment on the interviews with the politicians in what is a political documentary. But is it just me or does the inclusion of 3 (so far) senior public servants in this doco not sit well?
There was all this jumping on Mike Pezullo for what he is alleged to have done - correctly IMO. However, why the hell are Martin Parkinson, Jane Halton and Angus Houston - Order of Australia pins and defined benefit pensions and all making comment?
Public servants or players? A clear pattern perhaps?
The people who run the ABC are truly despicable individuals. Any sense of political or ideological impartiality on the part of the ABC ‘collective’ has long been trashed. It is no wonder that less than 10% of ordinary Australian people consume the ABC’s weaponised media output.
There can be no doubt that many in the public servant class in Australia have become political ‘players’. Every country has some sort of corruption problem, but it would it be true to say that political corruption has metastasised in Australia, riding on Antonio Gramsci’s ‘Long March Through the Institutions’ to create a cultural hegemony that delivers poor governance - if not outright incompetence on the part of the public service. The proof is everywhere. For example, the QLD Government’s health payroll system fiasco of 2010, where the cost of the software development blew out tenfold to over $1.2 billion. It has the historical distinction of being the most spectacular technology project failure in the Southern Hemisphere - and the second worst failure of public administration in Australia’s history. Was anybody sacked as a result?
Then there was the Federal Government’s so-called ‘Robodebt’ scheme of 2015-2019. It unlawfully brutalised many welfare recipients by incorrectly asserting that they had ripped off the welfare system, when they hadn’t. This fiasco was ‘managed’ by the public service.
But the biggest prize for public service incompetence must go to the so-called ‘health’ bureaucrats - whose lack of understanding of the dangers of experimenting with basic human physiology caused them to ‘provisionally’ authorise an unsafe experimental genetic agent to be injected by most of the population. The downstream effects of this experiment are now causing dramatic post-injection excess deaths and rises in community health problems – so much so that the Federal Government has been forced to institute additional Medicare schedules to cover medical costs for serious conditions attributed to the injected genetic agents.
There can be no doubt, by seeing themselves as ‘players’, the public service class has left Australia in a bad place.