[thorn bird]

Parallels perhaps??

A story in the Australian Tues May 18 by Ben Packham Foreign affairs and defence correspondent.

Headline:

"Man on a mission: Dutton keeps defence staff at arm's length"

"Peter Dutton has insulated his ministerial office from interference by Defence, accepting only the bare minimum of departmental staff as he prepares to shake up his $44bn portfolio"

The article explains he has only three people on his close staff contrasted against his predecessor whose office was "Stacked with defence Bureaucrats".

The article goes on to explain that "Defence is famed for co-opting and even undermining its ministers".

The article claims Senator Reynolds, a former Army reservist, critics said she was "Captured" by her department.

Interesting conjuring up parallels, Perhaps K could award a chock frog to whoever can read my mind as to which other government entity could be the prime suspect.

A minister "Captured"? or maybe a comparison between a minister coward and one with large Cahoona"s?