"Beware The Pen Pusher Power - Bureaucrats need to take orders and not take charge”, which noted:“Now that the Prime Minister is considering a wider public service reshuffle in the wake of the foreign affairs department's head, Finances Adamson, becoming the next governor of South Australia, it's time to scrutinise the faceless bureaucrats who are often more powerful in practice than the elected politicians."
"Outside of the Canberra bubble, almost no one knows their names. But take it from me, these people matter."
"When ministers turn over with bewildering rapidity, or are not ‘take charge’ types, department secretaries, and the deputy secretaries below them, can easily become the de facto government of our country."
"Since the start of the 2013, across Labor and now Liberal governments, we’ve had five prime ministers, five treasurers, five attorneys-general, seven defence ministers, six education ministers, four health ministers and six trade Ministers.”
This article was quite alarming. It was disturbing because Peta Credlin, someone with deep knowledge of Parliament House in Canberra, has accurately addressed the issue at hand. I not only relate to the information she presents, but I can also connect it to the many bureaucrats and politicians I have encountered since exposing what I did about the China wheat deal back in 1967, and the corrupted arbitration processes of 1994 to 1998. These government stuff-ups and cover-ups have cost lives.
In July 2005, a chilling truth emerged through the courageous efforts of rookie Senator Barnaby Joyce, who spotlighted the shadowy dealings surrounding fourteen individual COT (Customer Outreach Team) Cases. These cases illustrated a deeply corrupt system where government bureaucrats, acting as agents of betrayal, engaged in treachery so insidious that it undermined the very foundations of public trust. Over a period spanning fifteen long years, these officials orchestrated a deceitful campaign, lying, cheating, and knowingly billing the fourteen COT Cases for services that the Telstra Corporation, a primary telecommunications provider, had never delivered. The grotesque details of this corruption are elaborated on in “The eighth remedy pursued,” which reveals the extent of this malevolence.
