01100pab a2200169 454500 180718b1998 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Mulgan, Richard Politicisation of senior appointments in the Australian public service 1998 p.3-14 Sep The vexed question of politicisation and patronage in the Australian Public Service is explored in this article. Recent dismissals and appointments of department secretaries have raised concerns about political convenience, trends towards partisanship and the erosion of `frank and fearless' advice. Alternatively, governments have come to insist on `partnership' arrangements between ministers and secretaries, to enhance `political accountability' and install new management teams to better implement government policy. But do such forms of politicisation risk drifting toward a new `spoils system' most would want to avoid? - Reproduced Civil service - Australia Civil service Australian Journal of Public Administration 39642 39642 39642 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 57, Issue no: 3 AR40010 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR