22 March 2013

Public Service facing a very big ministerial reshuffle

22 March 2013 | johnboy

In the wake of the world’s worst leadership spill yesterday the Ministerial blood is flowing thick and fast.

All the whips are gone and will need relatively senior blood into their positions.

Simon Crean is gone. Richard Marles is gone. Chris Bowen is gone. Kim Carr is expected to go. Martin Ferguson is quitting on TV right now.

Even if there are no more rats jumping overboard it’s going to have to be a significant reshuffle.

Get ready for the Machinery of Government roundabout public servants!

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Gungahlin Al1:55 pm 25 Mar 13

“Desserty” was the limit surely? Now to be known simply as “Industry”?
For those of us who’ve been calling it that for ages anyway, carry on.

Primal1:45 pm 25 Mar 13

Vale DIISRTE. Taken before its delicious, meal-concluding time.

neanderthalsis1:45 pm 25 Mar 13

Minor MoGging. Climate Change will be absorbed into DIISRTE. So I am hoping the acronym becomes DICCSTER (pronounced Dickstir) or DICCRSTE (pronounced dickrest).

HiddenDragon1:31 pm 25 Mar 13

fromthecapital said :

HiddenDragon said :

johnboy said :

There’s no way in hell they can make a reshuffle this big without realigning some ministries.

So as we now see, nothing to worry about – a minimalist re-shuffle, with negligible MoG changes………

Speak for yourself

I always do. The dots at the end of my most recent comment might have been a clue, along with what I said (I particularly had Climate Change in mind) yesterday morning.

We now have a few Departments that sound more like shopping lists/wish lists/bucket lists (the latter being the most likely for this Government).

fromthecapital12:54 pm 25 Mar 13

HiddenDragon said :

johnboy said :

There’s no way in hell they can make a reshuffle this big without realigning some ministries.

So as we now see, nothing to worry about – a minimalist re-shuffle, with negligible MoG changes………

Speak for yourself

HiddenDragon12:12 pm 25 Mar 13

johnboy said :

There’s no way in hell they can make a reshuffle this big without realigning some ministries.

So as we now see, nothing to worry about – a minimalist re-shuffle, with negligible MoG changes………

Ben_Dover11:41 am 24 Mar 13

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HiddenDragon11:27 am 24 Mar 13

johnboy said :

There’s no way in hell they can make a reshuffle this big without realigning some ministries.

I’ll second that – a re-shuffle without MoG changes is entirely possible in theory, but would be unusual, given the scale of what’s involved. The dogs are still barking about Albanese, so a reduction in his portfolio, rather than demotion or sacking, could be an option, but quite unlikely, given the extent to which the Government relies on him in the House – and in public, he’s not giving an inch.

If there are significant MoG changes, it could give some hint at the cuts/changes to priorities being contemplated in the Budget process. Common sense would otherwise suggest keeping MoG changes to an absolute minimum, but if all the reports about relations between the Government and the APS are essentially true, common sense seems substantially to have gone out the door in the Government’s handling of that relationship.

HiddenDragon11:08 pm 23 Mar 13

EvanJames said :

why do so many women have such vicious opinions about the prime minister? The ABC interviewed the losers hanging around the Rooty Hill poker machine club on the day of the spill, and the women especially were spitting venom about the PM, but no one seems to have any concrete reasons for their dislike. I don’t find her dislikable, but I do think she’s competant, so clearly I’m missing something.

The most recent polling I have seen suggests that Gillard is slightly more popular (i.e. less unpopular) with women than with men. The Rooty Hill ladies may have been giving voice to the good old Aussie tall poppy syndrome and may even feel a little patronised that someone who is obviously very intelligent and very well educated is, perhaps, trying a little too hard with the vernacular – “gunna” is wearing thin, and always seems affected to me.

Back on topic, the Rooty Hill ladies, and most of the rest of Australia, could not give a flying you-know-what about the re-shuffle – Rudd is gone (the third two-fingered salute from the federal caucus), and most of them have made up their minds and stopped listening to the daily noise from Canberra.

mezza7610:56 pm 23 Mar 13

Masquara said :

er, no machinery of government involved JB. Just briefings for new parl secs and mins.

+1 – machinery of government refers to the changes to Administrative Arrangement Orders which outlines the matters dealt by a department and their legislation – commonly the changes to a department remit and name change.

This is just a reshuffle – or change to the Ministry List.

Most public servants have seen plenty of ministerial changes (although none that match the current turbulent circumstances).

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johnboy10:51 am 24 Mar 13

There’s no way in hell they can make a reshuffle this big without realigning some ministries.

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