Australia's mandarins : the frank and the fearless? / Patrick Moray Weller.

Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen and Unwin, 2001.

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Civil service -- Australia.

Australia -- Politics and government.

Chapter 1: Wither the mandarins?

Chapter 2: The Changing environment and framework

Chapter 3: The Mandarins: a collective portrait

Chapter 4: The Rise to the top: career patterns

Chapter 5: Advising ministers: from monopoly to competition

Chapter 6: Management: the invisible art

Chapter 7: Performance and accountability: who are the judges

Chapter 8: Inside out: the departmental secretaries' stories

Chapter 9: Sacking a departmental secretary: the Barrett case

Chapter 10: Whither departmental secretaries?

Includes index.

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vii, 256 p.