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"The whole place is a joke": Public servants tell of bullying, nepotism

South Australian bureaucrats have described a culture of “bullying, nepotism and favouritism” across the public service, with people appointed based on “who they know and not on merit”, in a staff survey described as “sobering and shocking” by the state’s integrity commissioner.

Port-bound bureaucrats' big taxi bill

State bureaucrats working at the government’s white elephant Port Adelaide office tower have racked up more than $25,000 in travel back to the CBD in the months since they’ve moved in, with taxpayers footing the bill, InDaily can reveal.

Ombudsman Wayne LInes. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily

Ombudsman's maladministration finding over bureaucrat's food and booze spending

A major state department committed maladministration and its former CEO misconduct in public administration, a scathing Ombudsman’s investigation into taxpayer-funded spending on meals, alcohol and entertainment has found.

"It's in a sorry state": More senior jobs axed at morale-sapped trade agency

Some of the state’s most senior bureaucrats were offered psychological counselling before being escorted from their building in a public service purge that is still ongoing at the troubled agency that sells South Australia to the world, InDaily can reveal.

Govt plan to merge Public Trustee, Public Advocate offices

The agencies that provide financial management and wellbeing services to incapacitated South Australians would be merged under one roof, in reforms the State Government claims will reduce duplication.