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Best Betts on inclusivity and respect (etc..etc) in his Department?? -   

Remember this?

Best Betts gives a fist of solidarity to Albo's VOICE!! - 

Via the APH Parlview:

That video has since accumulated over 7k views and 104 mostly negative comments - E.G:

@MuggaVirtualPilotMVP
2 months ago

This is what happens when the Public Service employs its people based on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.  You end up with politically charged and motivated bureaucracy that uses their positions to drive partisan socialist agendas.  This Secretary should be thrown out and made an example of.  I'll answer Mr Betts.... "Your being accused of using your Public Service employment to promote your own partisan political agendas".  It's also time the politicians stood up to public servants and stopped pandering to them.

Therefore it was with interest that I noted the following LinkedIn post...

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
31,242 followers
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“My job is to try to instil a culture which is free from fear, where people feel valued and respected and inspired, and where they have permission to be creative, and permission to be bold and daring and try new things.”

In this interview with The Mandarin, Secretary Jim Betts gives some insight into his leadership philosophy and goals for the department ⬇

Mandarin article link: Can a culture free of fear thrive in the APS? Jim Betts thinks so

Meanwhile JB's dept is actively promoting across social media their "National Road Safety Action Grants Program" with this picture:



Ref: Errr...what's wrong with this picture?? - (cont/-)

I also note that, of the 405 QON for Budget Estimates 2023-24,  there is still over 270 outstanding/overdue answers to QON for JB's Department: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Bus..._estimates

This is in stark contrast to the Agricultural Dept which I believe answered pretty much all QON by the agreed to date of 14 July 2023 - see para 1.9 HERE.

But I guess this is starting to become common practice for JB and miniscule Dickie King - reference QON 1 (still unanswered):

Question Senator McKENZIE: Ms Bridger, maybe you can confirm that a month after the due date for supplementary questions on notice there were still 237 out of 280 outstanding. Ms Bridger: I couldn't confirm that exact figure, but I do know that we did get a lot of questions last time around and it did take us a while to come back and answer all of them. Senator McKENZIE: By 10 May, so after the budget was handed down, there were 19 outstanding responses and there are still 11. Are these still sitting in the department, Ms Bridger? Ms Bridger: I'd have to take that one on notice.
[...]
Senator McKENZIE: Could you please give me the full list of dates on which draft responses were first submitted to the relevant minister's office for review? Ms Bridger: Yes, I'll take that one on notice. The dates of the drafts? I would have to take that on notice. Senator McKENZIE: On the date questions on notice were due, 280 remained unanswered. A month later, 237 still remained unanswered. The budget comes down, and we've still got questions unanswered. I'm trying to find out whether it is the department that is slow to answer. Where are the QONs? Where are they? How many are still in the minister's office and how many are still to be answered by the department?
[...]
Senator McKENZIE: Were the majority of answers drafted prior to the due date of 31 March? Ms Bridger: I don't have that information at hand. So, again, we'd have to take that I notice. It would be a huge table of where things are, and they go backwards and forwards sometimes. I don't have that table with me.
[...]
Senator McKENZIE: Can somebody let me know today how many of the questions your team sent up to the minister's office, respectful of that deadline, and how many remain in the minister's office versus the 11 that we have? Ms Bridger: Yes, sure.

  
 UDB! 

MTF...P2