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Bushfires and the big truths about big charities

24 January 2020

10:05 PM

24 January 2020

10:05 PM

An important thing to remember about large parts of the government bureaucracy and the not-for-profit/community sector is that they are giant employment schemes for people who would rather not work in the private sector, with the actual aims of respective agencies and organisations being of secondary importance. This is not to disparage great work done by many, particularly in the “third sector”, but to acknowledge that the number one objective of every structure is to perpetuate itself and keep expanding.

With that in mind, the stories like this one from earlier in the week are not really surprising:

At an emotional press...

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