Disrupted progress

By Jack Waterford
Updated December 15 2017 - 11:18pm, first published 11:14pm

Martin Parkinson, chief commissar of the Australian Public Service, can scarcely walk around the corner these days without mentioning, usually two or three times, the word "disruption". It's not the first time he has become given to repeating sloganistic words over and over again. But he means it, I think, helpfully, rather than as some sort of explanation or excuse for the fact that the government is finding it more difficult to make things work, and that the bureaucracy seems no more able to connect or be effective than do the politicians it serves.

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