SCENE: PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE. JIM HACKER, PRIME MINISTER, AND SIR HUMPHREY APPLEBY, PERMANENT SECRETARY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS.
ENTER BERNARD, PRINCIPAL PRIVATE SECRETARY, carrying a 20-page report from the Lowy Institute.
BERNARD: Excuse me, Prime Minister. Good morning, Sir Humphrey.
SIR HUMPHREY: Bernard. What’s that report you’ve got tucked under your arm?
BERNARD: It’s the Lowy Institute report on [chuckles] ‘deliberative democracy’.
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