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#BellingCat: Money where your mouth is ScoMo...  


Ref: https://auntypru.com/dont-get-in-our-way/

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Yesterday ScoMo apparently re-read the riot act to the APS...

References, 1st from Thorny on Snippets :

In todays Australian:

" Public service Mandarins have been put on notice that they will have to meet greater community expectations of service delivery, respect the governments policy agenda and remove bureaucracy roadblocks if they want to keep their jobs.

The implicit message to be delivered by Scott Morrison today comes as the Prime Minister warned that his ministers too would be accountable for regulatory reform and policy rigour across their portfolios."

Ahem! PM.... mate. Are you aware of the following in regards to Aviation?

In the general aviation sector of the industry, expectations of service delivery are so far below rock bottom you need two decompression stops to surface.

Have CAsA ever respected Government policy? there's ample evidence they have thumbed their noses at Government Policy. Is it government policy to shut down the GA industry?, they are doing just that by stealth.

How many roadblocks can a bureaucracy put up? In Australia, CAsA have burdened the industry with tens of thousands of pages of very poorly designed, obtuse, indecipherable regulations in the name of 'Safety". In the USA they achieve better safety outcomes than us with less than a thousand pages of plain english rules. Their industry thrives, ours dies.

CAsA's attempts at "Reform", many would say is actually having a detrimental affect on safety. They have been at it for more than thirty years now, and expended hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to achieve NOTHING, except a dying industry. New Zealand adopted US regulations in less than two years, spent around five million dollars to amend and modify FAA rules, their aviation industry is thriving.

Your Minister, despite the recommendations from many inquiries and industry groups, obfuscates, and ignores the voices of the industry while CAsA runs amok, killing investment, stifling growth, innovation, incomes and in some cases denying natural justice.

So the big question Mr Morrison is are you really serious about the statements in the above press release or is it just Pie in the Sky?

And from the Oz:

Australia ‘expects more’ of public servants


Prime Minister Scott Morrison will deliver a speech to the Institute of Public­ Administration in Canberra today. Picture: AAP

• SIMON BENSON
  NATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR
  GREG BROWN
  NATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR
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• 12:00AM AUGUST 19, 2019
  
  
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Australia’s outgoing top bureaucrat Martin Parkinson has backed Scott Morrison’s push for innovation and reform of the public service, declaring “the Australian public expect more of us”.


The secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet told leading bureaucrats in Canberra this morning that the Prime Minister’s push to reform the public service should “give you clarity about where we are going and how fast we intend to get there”.

“The PM has been pretty clear already about how he sees the public service. He respects the APS. He appreciates the different roles played by ministers, their offices and the public service,” Dr Parkinson said in Parliament House this morning.

“But while we have done well in the past, he and the Australian public expect more of us. More delivery, more momentum, more focus and getting on with the job of serving Australians and making their lives easier.

“In fact this is exactly what we have been hearing from the public themselves. They expect more of us as well.”

Dr Parkinson will be replaced in his role next month by Treasury secretary Philip Gaetjens.

He said government departments need to be more innovative and listen to a wider range of voices outside the public service.

“We have gotten better at engaging with outside views. The first step of that though is recognising they existed,” he said.

“We have brought in more people from outside the APS but we still have a long way to go in making that transition.”

Morrison puts public servants on notice

The PM put public service mandarins on notice that they will have to meet greater community expectations of service delivery, respect the government’s policy agenda and remove crippling bureaucr­acy if they want to keep their jobs.

The implicit message, delivered­ by Scott Morrison today in a speech to the Institute of Public­ Administration in Canberra, comes as the Prime Minister warned that his cabinet ministers would also be held accountable for regulatory reform and policy rigour­ across their portfolios.

With more changes expected in the senior ranks of the public service in coming months, Mr Morrison will today outline a broader vision for the public service that will challenge the “Canberra club’’ and put “quiet Australians” at the heart of the public service mission.

Fears within the bureaucracy that a quiet purge was being ­planned were rejected by the government.

However, Mr Morrison said community expectations “have never been greater” and the Australian Public Service needs to “evolve” as more demands are made of it to deliver public services such as the NDIS.

In a strident reminder it was the government that set policy, not the public service, Mr Morrison signalled a new era of accountability will sweep through the bureaucracy. Reforms will include a recruitment drive to open up public service jobs to private sector professionals, in what some regard as a radical culture shock for the APS.

“At the departmental level, secretari­es will need to be pro­active in identifying ways to bust congestion in the commonwealth bureaucracy,” Mr Morrison will say in his speech at the Great Hall of Parliament House.

“And all ministers will continue to remain responsible for ensuring that regulations in their portfolios are fit for purpose.

“There is strong evidence that the trust deficit that has afflicted many Western democracies over recent years stems in part from a perception politics is very responsive to those at the top and those at the bottom, but not so much to those in the middle.”

The Australian recently revealed sweeping reforms to the APS, with confirmation that the secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, ­Martin Parkinson, will retire.

His successor, former Treasury secretary Phil Gaetjens, will lead the implementation of recommendations from a review into the APS by former Telstra boss David Thodey, which will be handed to government in the coming weeks.

Since announcing Mr Gaetjens’ appointment, and his replaceme­nt in Steven Kennedy as Treasury secretary, Mr Morrison has made key appointments to agencies including ASIO and the Australian Federal Police, as well as the appointment of former ­Abbott and Howard government security adviser Andrew Shearer as cabinet secretary. The widely respected secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Frances Adamson, is tipped to move into another portfolio.

Mr Morrison said: “The Australian people need to be at the centre of APS service delivery. That is the thinking behind ­Services Australia. This isn’t some fancy rebranding exercise.

“It’s a message to the whole of the APS, top to bottom, about what matters to people. It’s about doing the little things well, everything from reducing call waiting times and turnaround on corres­pondence through to improving the experience people have walking into a Centrelink office.

“I want to send a message to every single member of the APS, in whatever role you have: you can make a difference to the lives of the Australian people.

“In rugby, my coach used to describe­ it as the bacon and eggs principle: the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.”

 



And a link plus quotes from the Mandarin article:

Prime Minister bucks up the troops of the public service in a call to remember the ‘quiet Australians’


Prime Minister Scott Morrison (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison chose to begin Monday morning with his first major speech to the Australian Public Service, hosted by the Institute of Public Administration Australia at Parliament House.

A web stream was arranged to show the speech live and a written preview was provided by the PM’s office. Morrison provides six “guideposts” for employees of the APS, “to show the way forward for the evolution of our public service” and reinforce his priorities.

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“I want to send a message to every single member of the APS, in whatever role you have: ‘You can make a difference to the lives of the Australian people.’

“We all have a job to do and that is to serve the Australian people.

“I’ve talked about the need for a culture of regulatory congestion busting in our bureaucracy.

“That doesn’t mean cutting corners or not meeting regulatory obligations.

“But it does mean being relentless in finding ways to help Australians make things happen and reach their goals. Not sitting passively while families and businesses struggle to navigate rules and regulations.

“We need interactions with government to be simpler and less bureaucratic.

“It’s why I have tasked my Assistant Minister Ben Morton with revitalising our regulatory reform and deregulation agenda, with a new Deregulation Taskforce in the Treasury.

“A key focus is on working with business to identify and remove unnecessary barriers to investment, with a focus on sectors and activities which have the most to gain.

“At the departmental level, Secretaries will need to be proactive in identifying ways to bust congestion in the Commonwealth bureaucracy. And all Ministers will continue to remain responsible for ensuring that regulations in their portfolios are fit-for-purpose.

Hmm...as Thorny says : 

"..So the big question Mr Morrison is are you really serious about the statements in the above press release or is it just Pie in the Sky?.."


Finally coming back to our useless, head up his a*** miniscule McDonaught...

"...Your Minister, despite the recommendations from many inquiries and industry groups, obfuscates, and ignores the voices of the industry while CAsA runs amok, killing investment, stifling growth, innovation, incomes and in some cases denying natural justice..."

We'll definitely be Belling the Cat on these ScoMo statements...

“One of the worst criticisms politicians can make of each other is that a Minister is a captive of their department... 

P2 - Hmm...  

 

...That is not a reflection on the department, but on the Minister. It speaks to a Minister not driving their policy agenda. I have selected and tasked my Ministers to set and drive the agendas of our Government. I believe the public have a similar expectation...

“A public servant providing advice must exercise all due diligence and professional care in its preparation, but it is the Minister who must decide as it is they who will face the public and be held to account. This is how it should be...

“Only those who have put their name on a ballot can truly understand the significance of that accountability. I know you might feel sometimes that you are absolutely right in what you are suggesting, but I can tell you when it is you that is facing the public and must look your constituents in the eye, it gives you a unique perspective.”

Hmm...perhaps ScoMo could start by taking his DPM to task on his total disengagement on anything to do with aviation safety, the muppet doesn't even have the decency to reply to legitimate professional industry concerns..FFS!    

Examples (above posts) and: Glen Buckley to PM - "..Previous correspondence to the responsible Minister has been ignored, hence I bring this to the attention of the Prime Ministers Department.."

UFUA Aviation Branch Secretary: "..Your Union has reached out to our minister Mr McCormack who has totally ignored us. Great work by an elected representative of the people. Considering the great benefits an expanded ARFFS would have for regional Australia, its sad that a National Party leader is just not interested enough to even respond..."



MTF...P2 

It is completely unacceptable that a Minister doesn’t answer correspondence in a timely manner. Regarding responsibilities, the failed means of governance by independent Commonwealth corporate bodies, deliberately divorced from the Minister’s Department, is an affront to the Westminster system.

Ps 

Coach Morrison’s pep talk becomes a public spectacle