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Bureaucratic Politics: The 1972-1975 Whitlam Government

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National security is currently closer to the focus of public administration than any other time since the beginning of World War II. Bureaucratic politics has arguably been in place in Australia since Federation in 1901. The public service had in fact been a part of government until the 1890s, however as the Labor Party was considered a threat that challenged, and was capable of changing, the status quo. This thus prompted the public service to be placed outside of politics, with senior public servants in control of the service. This fostered the idea that power was not in hands of politician’s but in anonymous public servants. The status of public service is again changed during the 1972-1975 Whitlam government. Questions as to the minister-public
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