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The state’s bureaucracy could be bolstered to combat rising unemployment, as Premier Steven Marshall says he is “all for” maintaining flexible working arrangements in the public service after the coronavirus pandemic subsides.
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The outgoing chief of SA’s Innovation and Skills agency has been handpicked for a new Premier’s Department role overseeing “public sector performance and reform”, and will help shape the state’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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EXCLUSIVE | The CEO of SA Health has referred himself to the Public Sector Commissioner over revelations he was still listed as the director of a private company during the first two months of his public appointment – and that a related company began work on a $13 million contract for SA Health while he had both roles.
The state’s Department of Environment and Water will become primarily an “economic development agency” that will be forced to operate with “less staff and smaller budgets” under a major restructure announced to staff yesterday.
Premier Steven Marshall says his Liberal Government has no “ideological problem” with the state’s public service, but argues it hasn’t been “particularly well-led”.
A major public service shake-up should be carried out over three terms of Liberal rule rather than with an immediate “big bang”, the Marshall Government has been told.
The State Opposition will seek to establish a select committee to further investigate claims Premier Steven Marshall raised questions with a senior public servant about the “impartiality” of his cabinet office days before five staff members with links to former Labor ministers were shifted out of his Department.
