Getting ready ... Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who is likely to be Australia's next prime minister. Photo: Nic Walker The increasing emphasis in recent years on spin and media management has not only been at the expense of careful policy deliberation in the public interest, it's come at a high cost to good management of government programs and policies. Two former Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet secretaries, Terry Moran and Professor Peter Shergold, made valuable contributions recently by suggesting (particularly in the June issue of the Australian Journal of Public Administration) some improvements to government processes. Yet some of their prescriptions are wide of the mark,...
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