One of the messages of Rick Morton's 'Mean Streak' was the need to hold senior public servants to account. The response of the current government has been to make it easier for them to hide.

If you don't want your decision-making made public, don't accept a public service job.

By coincidence, today I read this glowing report on the Sirius building in Sydney - turned from social housing to millionaire apartments. The sale was supposed to fund more social housing: how much has been delivered, I wonder, and what happened to the Sirius community?
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Why would anyone "make a deal" with someone who could just decide not to honour it next week?

True. Pity that you also continue to approve fossil fuel projects.

Love the idea of someone capping the ripoff that is US pharma prices; be very surprised if he manages to pull it off. GOP, after all, is very free market/small government when it comes to putting limits on business.