Arrogant government has no interest in integrity

Which is worse, for two years Labor kept secret a report criticizing its and its predecessors’ choices in appointing friends to public office? Or that when he published this his response was a ridiculous set of “principles” that would do nothing to end government cronyism?

Labor had not been in power long when it appointed former senior civil servant Lynelle Briggs to review the appointment process for government boards. Perhaps it’s a commitment to integrity left over from Labor’s three terms in opposition, when it speaks of Labor making a big game against cronyism and the politicization of government appointments (the relentless stacking of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal with Coalition hacks and failed MPs, the appointment of Liberal apparatchik Phil Gaetjens as head of the civil service, and the appointment of failed Liberal MP and WorkChoices advocate Sophie Mirabella to the Fair Work Commission). There was. much, much more.