The NSW Premier unveiled a new-look public service structure including a plan to split the state’s Department of Premier and Cabinet.
The NSW Government will pay out almost $1.5 million in termination benefits to three top public servants sacked by Premier Chris Minns in his first major shake-up of the state’s public service since taking power.
Under the new structure, former Roads and Maritime Service chief executive Peter Duncan will act as secretary for the Department of Premier and Cabinet and lead the new set-up of the two new divisions.Mr Duncan currently chairs the Australian Rail Track Corporation – with responsibility for rolling out the beleaguered inland rail project – as well as WaterNSW, and previously served as the deputy director general of Department and Premier and Cabinet under the Liberal O’Farrell government.
“The cluster system that’s been in place in the state for the last decade .... I don’t believe is working,” Mr Minns said.“It’s pushing down decision-making theoretically to the departmental bureaucratic level, but in reality, there’s no substitute for the cabinet office. These decisions have to be made at the senior levels of the NSW government.
The announcements have triggered shockwaves throughout the public service which is braced for more changes in coming months as the new Labor government dismantles the “cluster” model which grouped portfolios together with a senior minister responsible for the cluster – such as transport.
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