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Taking out the trash in Victoria: bureaucrats, not just ministers, need to go

27 September 2020

11:10 AM

27 September 2020

11:10 AM

Other Victorian Ministers will inevitably soon join Jenny Mikakos on the political scrapheap, but the spotlight should be turned to the state’s mercurial public administrators, the so-called mandarins.

As the wheels start to fall off the ramshackle Andrews’ government, it’s time to examine the role of those supposed to be administering the multi-billion dollar department’s of Health, Jobs and Justice and Community Safety.

Calls for the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to follow his former Health Minister out the door are premature.

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