Surgery wait list reaches 8,000, NSW hospitals

[Lefteee]

My personal history has nothing to do with it - the AMA's behaviour is not hard to spot

I'll take that as a yes.

I guess I can't really comment on your veiws on the AMA since I don't know the particular issues intimately.

My impression of departmental administration is not a particularly good one. Not attacking you personally, just reporting from the coalface.

I was once appalled to be told that we should endevour to think of schools as a business and children as the product.

But I'm digressing now.

[donniedarko]

My personal history has nothing to do with it - the AMA's behaviour is not hard to spot

Not attacking you personally, just reporting from the coalface.

I'll take that as a yes.

Before delving into the public adminstrator bash, remember that a lot of them come from the 'coal face' too, and it is from their experiences that they move into administration to try and make differences on a larger scale than is possible from being in the field.

[Lefteee]

Oh they make a difference all right. They seem particularly artful at squeezing and fostering division. Hey, why not? Divide and rule is such a tried and true strategy.

Actually, the bloke who told me to think of schools as businesses and children as products was once at the coalface so I assume he was already a prick when he was there as well.

My impression is that once you go a certain distance from the coalface, it ceases to be about the service being delivered in a real sense. For example, the upper echalons of the education department are not an educational department - they are a political department. I'll assume that extends to the rest of the PS.

But hey, don't mind me. I've just grown a bit cynical from all the years of lies and stonewalling and general runaround that we get. Certainly does nothing positive for actual service delivery.