Yes Minister

If a government minister meddles rather than managers, he will create a 3 headed monster rather than have one with just two heads . "The eyes don't have it "---the feet do . Find some eyes you can trust - they will be firmly connected to the ground via a body that's at least working - not just active ,well dressed and dancing about.

FTA --What the majority of people wanted to hear --more freedom, more trade, more agreement "You are so clever!!" "Why didn't anyone else think of leaving your job to the market before? Its a real win ! ". Trouble is , Mark Latham would then be right because you don't have anything left to govern and you are getting paid more than enough not to do what you no longer need to do . bernard "Nice choice of words" -" FTA bound to please all those who believe in the power of simple altruism". M "SometimesI think we are a bit unsure of ourselves "......- we do live on a island after all - SirH quietly "do innocence and isolation have anything in common ?" See cringenomore

You are right minister . Someone is to blame . Sir humphrey is not always willing to tell you why neither of you are getting what you want - chances are, since you voted for yes men incorporated that he doesn't know much about practical things either. Best you keep a list of people who have got a bad reputaion with him and the department because they know what they are talking about and have at one time said so . Otherwise its more of the same cycle . see Jensen in news weekly 10th january

We know what you said Minister, but we've heard it all before, infact we've tried it all before (admittedly with a different name ) It doesn't work You're confused! .( there is a more polite way of saying this but I don't have time to beat around the bush ) Accountancy and accountability are too different things ,living in quite different paradigms. News about Doctors leaving December 17th Sound health care is not driven from behind by the reactive paradigm of purchaser and provider - economic models of mismanagement and misapprehension more like it . You need just one lateral thinker in Canberra Mr Abbott .Like many of your collegues , you have got too many yes men and too many ill fitting clothes

The lesson in the sheep story ...and how to stop it dragging on? - Don't jump at noise like the silly blighters who bob up and bleet at a moments notice - -------running the mob ragged ! Stay calm. --Don't take the responsive ABC bleeters too serioulsy either --they don't know much about the environment , real risks and dangers and it will come out --Keep in touch with the battleground out here . http://users.gsat.net.au/tuf/battleground.htm Well done in giving that noisy bleeter a hard time in parliament .

Whose going to tell our iching ears leaders that using consultancies is often an increasingly expensive road to non decisionmaking . How much duck shoving is being done in the name of good governance all over Australia from this abdication by ministers of ministry responsibility Got to stop . False idealism is driving it http://users.gsat.net.au/tuf see Rod Mackenzies letter Geelong A 22 October

whose going to tell Hon Hearmeyerand cabinet their preference for expensive heavenly minded solutions( the helicopters) is of limited earthly use in improving the real life dilemmas facing people on the fire forest issues on the ground.