What future for free and frank advice?

Authors

  • Richard Mulgan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v8i4.4434

Keywords:

Public Service Act, career-based public service, service-wide standards, State Services Commission (SSC), integrity and impartiality, Better Public Services Advisory Group, balanced judgement, ministerial responsibility

Abstract

I would like to begin by thanking the Institute of Public Administration for their invitation to deliver this lecture as part of their centennial commemorations of the Public Service Act of 1912. This act deserves to be remembered because it formally enshrined certain values that remain fundamental to government but which have not always received due recognition from those who comment publicly on public service matters. 

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Policy Quarterly volume 8 number 4 2012

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2012-11-01

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Vol. 8 No. 4 (2012): Policy Quarterly

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