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The bureaucrat overseeing the Marshall Government’s e-Planning overhaul has been sanctioned over the sacking of a contractor who questioned his demand not to work from home during the coronavirus lockdown – but has himself been working from his own home in Sydney for the past month, it has been revealed.
Notes on Adelaide
Notes on Adelaide returns, bringing news of the head of a major SA government department who wants staff to embrace the Eastern philosophy of ‘Kaizen’ when they return to the office en masse – but what’s happened to one of his key appointments?
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The ‘fly in-fly out’ bureaucrat overseeing the state’s e-Planning overhaul sacked a departmental contractor who questioned an order to work from the office instead of home, and told other staff “we would need to have a serious conversation” if they did not attend work in person, according to an internal email purporting to contain his own account of a torrid staff meeting.
The Marshall Government has conceded a senior ‘fly in-fly out’ bureaucrat has continued to work in the office of the Planning, Transport and Infrastructure Department instead of self-isolating, despite calls from the Premier that working from home will “reduce the risk and the spread” of coronavirus.
The State Government will seek to sell off the rights to its successful traffic management software AddInsight, saying its future use “extends far beyond” the administration’s core business.
EXCLUSIVE | Almost the entire leadership of the State Government’s delayed e-Planning rollout has resigned in recent days as bureaucrats stage a mass walkout from a project the responsible agency insists remains on track.
