The Results Of The Poll Today Should Cause A Real Pause For Thought.
I find the Poll results I posted a few hours ago pretty alarming.
To recap:
https://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2021/06/aushealthit-poll-number-583-results.html
Are You Concerned That The ADHA Appears To Have Avoided Scrutiny Of Its Performance And Delivery From Senate Estimates For A Full Year Now, Apparently Due To Committee Time Constraints In COVID Times?
Yes 99% (81)
No 1% (1)
I Have No Idea 0% (0)
Total votes: 82
The two comments so far really point to a larger trend:
Anonymous said...
ADHA is a simple indicator of a broader problem, in some cases accelerated under cover of COVID. Still, the march away from transparency and accountability by politicians and public servants has been steady for a while. We only have to look at our US partners to see what can manifest when we get lazy; let us not take for granted our right to vote and complain and let those in public office remember for whom they serve.
June 13, 2021 9:09 AM
Anonymous said...
"ADHA is a simple indicator of a broader problem,"
Yes. Always deny there is a problem and claim success instead.
June 13, 2021 11:33 AM
When I consider the last few years the lack of accountability seems to be just off the charts with the clearest example being the RoboDebt debacle where despite hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients being hounded for debts they did not owe. No Minister or Senior Public Servant has been disciplined – let alone fired! Not even a proper apology.
Equally we have policies like the punitive slow benefit levels offered to those on welfare trapped in the Lockdown 4.0 in Victoria because the Treasurer want to send a message to the Victorian Governments and has a huge number of the poor left cold and starving! What an effort from a totally unaccountable Government.
Look further back and we have the slowness to actually recognise the need for a wage-subsidy like JobKeeper and 3-4 million lost their jobs and the then overly keen wind back of the level of Jobseeker returning millions to poverty.
Think back 20-30 years and Ministers like Stuart Roberts, Angus Taylor, Paul Fletcher, Alan Tudge, Christian Porter and Richard Colbeck would most likely have gone from Cabinet – at least for a while and none have!
We truly have a ‘Teflon’ administration whose members just press on and refuse of acknowledge / apologies for major blunders etc.! Worse still all the fixes and ‘political’ not compassionate and guided by decency
Sadly we see similar trends in the US – think Trump and his various discretions – and in the UK where flagrant infidelity used to have people resign but now they are praised.
My point here is that if this is the present ambience – how can we expect better from the ADHA. Sadly I don’t think we can and neither can we expect better responses to problems and issues as the commenters have pointed out.
I fear we are on a rather sad downhill slide in terms of honesty, integrity and accountability and I really think it is serious given the competition we see for governance superiority between the liberal democracies – as they used to be – and the autocracies.
Even worse I do not really see how things are going to change – which is sadder still. While we have a Government keeping Australian-born children in detention for merely existing we are doomed and have lost our soul. Worse we show ourselves to be hardly different from the autocracies – and will thus doom ourselves long term.
Suggestions and ideas welcome!
David.
With nearly three decades in and around the public service I can attest to it rapid decline. There is no longer real commitment to the job or the service. In many cases we are run by fly-in fly-out management, that is they intend to be disruptive for a few years, often setting in motion chaotic and confusing plans and organisational changes that last longer they they do, this is repeated every few years. There is no corporate knowledge retained, nor really gained.
ReplyDeleteStaffing levels have dropped, subsidised by externals that operate mostly outside the policies and hang on to the FIFO management teams.
That certainly sums up ADHA well. They have had as many of the top brass as we have had prime ministers. In every case, almost all ADHA leadership people have been eyeing their next gig, not really wanted the gig, and certainly not meet all the requirement of the role gifted to them. Those that might have cast a light on their shortcoming seemed to have been masterfully silenced and evicted (more distraction).
ReplyDeleteAnd all for what? Nothing has improved, data is fragmented, inaccessible, and services are far from being acceptable, let alone great - so much for all the CX, UX dribble - again seen as technology problem rather than an appreciation of the human element. Led by someone who made the finder mental mistake of assuming She knew best.
I do not see much difference in the new lineup. At least the legacy of some recent features is being dismantled which I hear is something of a positive step.