Talk:Max Moore-Wilton

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Surely, he has to accept ultimate responsibility for the toxic tabloid culture at 2Day FM.

Disgraceful - is the only word for it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.210.188.2 (talk) 03:12, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Perspective, please

He immediately implemented cuts of more than 11,000 staff, including six department heads and proceeded to aggressively outsource various government services.

I think this attributes WAY, WAY too much power to him. The Secretary of PM&C simply does not have the power or authority to get rid of other department heads; or to institute widespread outsourcing of government functions. It reads like these were decisions he alone made. Whatever cuts or outsourcings he implemented were decisions made by the government (probably with his input, admittedly, but it was the government's call at the end of the day), and he was paid (very handsomely, more than the PM) to do their bidding.

He oversaw the passing of the Public Service Act 1999 (Cwlth), which gave the Prime Minister the power to hire and fire heads of departments. As a result he was accused of turning the public service into an "ideological office family".

He's a public servant, goddamit. Laws are made by the Parliament, and to get into parliament you have to be elected. This reads, again, as if Max personally changed the law and then advised the Prime Minister what new powers he now had. The truth is the complete opposite. The government proposed the new law, parliament approved it, and Max implemented it. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 10:06, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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