Intergenerational Report weakens the entire public service's integrity

By Richard Mulgan
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:10pm, first published May 1 2015 - 11:40am

When science broadcaster Karl Kruszelnicki publicly repudiated his support for the government's Intergenerational Report, he said he had been duped about the report's status and purpose. When he had earlier agreed to be the frontman for the government's advertising campaign, he had assumed the report was an independent, bipartisan and non-political document. However, when he read the full report (he had only been offered selected excerpts before signing up), he saw it as highly political and "flawed". In particular, in his view, it did not take enough account of the possible effects of climate change on the nation's future.

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