01328pab a2200169 454500008004000000100001600040245007400056260000900130300001400139362000800153520080000161650001800961773004800979909001001027999001701037952010401054180718b2004   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWanna, John  aThe 2004 federal election - party platforms toward the public service  c2004  ap.119-22.  aDec  aThe public service emerged as an election issue some months before John Howard called the election, but was promptly drowned in the melee of marginal seat vote-bidding of the campaign proper. While this report will appear after the electoral outcome is known, it is important to record the policies of the various political party on the public service and to a degree the wider public sector. This includes what was said and what was not. Both main protagonists declared themselves supportive of a `truly independent public service' with Labor critical of the alleged politicisation of senior levels of the service. As suggested in the commentary below, the proposed policy statements of intent tended to tinker at the margins rather than present a blueprint of significant change. - Reproduced.  aCivil service  aAustralian Journal of Public Administration  a64100  c64100d64100  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 63, Issue no: 4pAR64552r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR