Opinion

Learning from Queensland's Coaldrake public sector review

By Paddy Gourley
Updated August 8 2022 - 10:32pm, first published 5:30am
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk wanted a review in order to "refresh its focus on culture and accountability". Picture: Getty Images
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk wanted a review in order to "refresh its focus on culture and accountability". Picture: Getty Images

It hardly gets more proverbial than to say that Australian governments from colonial times unto the present have fitted on most points in the spectrum from good to bad, many tinctured with generous doses of eccentricity, lack of principle and what is known to the contemporary world as an "unethical culture", a euphemism able to disguise multitudes of foibles.

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