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Messy politics of public service decentralisation and the Canberra region

By John Warhurst
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:43pm, first published April 25 2017 - 4:45pm

The push by the Nationals – led by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and Nationals' deputy leader Fiona Nash – for systematic decentralisation of federal public servants to regional cities, has accelerated. Government departments will now be forced to justify why at least some of their functions should not be moved out.

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