01054pab a2200169 454500 180718b2000 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Spry, Max Senior public servants, political discrimination and dismissals 2000 p.95-100 Jun In recent years literature on public administration in Australia has often referred to the increasing politicisation of both the federal and state public services. Increasingly, senior members of the bureaucracy are appointed on contract. Such contracts can often be terminated without the need to give reasons. Presumably some dismissals will be motivated by partisan, or party-political, considerations. Where this is so, what role might there be for anti-discrimination legislation, particularly that denying discrimination on the grounds of political belief or activity in the workplace? - Reproduced Civil service - Australia Civil service Australian Journal of Public Administration 45271 45271 45271 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 59, Issue no: 2 AR45693 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR