New master in the house

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 19 2018 - 7:43am, first published September 19 2013 - 3:00am

It was more the day of the dagger than the night of the long knives, but the Tony Abbott mini-purge of senior public servants - among his first 10 executive acts on Wednesday - will be generally interpreted within the service as political payback rather than as objective performance assessment.

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