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100			_aMulgan, Richard
245			_aTruth in government and the politicization of public service advice
260			_c2007
300			_ap.569-586.
520			_aRecent controversies over intelligence in Iraq, to give one example, have raised problems about the politicization of official advice from government, particularly what we are led to believe is factual or `objective' advice. Objectively is a contested value and the lines are often hard to draw between fact, spin and misrepresentation. Public servants are held to higher standards of objectivity than politicians, a fact on which politicians trade when they seek to attribute assessments of evidence to their officials. The growing openness of government documentation is placing pressure on departmental officials who wish to be both loyal to their political masters and honest in their factual assessments. These issues are discussed with reference to recent Australian experience (and also with reference to the UK Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr. David Kelly). - Reproduced.
650			_aCivil service
773			_aPublic Administration
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