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Book review: Grube

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How should public servants do their work? Quietly and cowed? Or loud and proud? Is there a middle way between the Westminster tradition and the Washington model? And can Australian public servants walk this tightrope?

I review Dennis C. Grube’s terrific Megaphone Bureaucracy: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of the New Normal for Inside Story.

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