Reflections of a once petty official 24 March 2013 | The Scan generally eschews politics: it's not the reason people subscribe to The Scan. From time-to-time, I do post general items which have very little - or nothing at all - to do with "tertiary news and views". Despite the fact that I think they're pretty neat, they invariably bomb. Cases in point being Everybody knows, The sounds of silence, (perhaps my own favourite), It was time, Uncivil discourse, all of which barely blipped on the traffic screen. But I was for a long while (14 years in fact) a senior staffer to ministers in ALP governments and I can't let recent events go unremarked. Former Rudd/Gillard government … [Read more...]
