A brouhaha is brewing about the recent actions of the NSW State Government in its merger of two small agencies inside the Attorney Generals Department: Public Trustee NSW and Office of the Protective Commissioner.
Tony Boyd of the Business Spectator has written "Would You Trust NSW?" a scathing commentary on what he argues is a poorly planned merger of two organizations serving different members of the public. Boyd says:
"The deal looks headed down the same path as many failed corporate mergers that put short term financial objectives ahead of long-term planning." (See it here).
Looks like the whole state government is in a mess if this merger is any litmus test!
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The merger resembles what happened in the late 1980s in England. Today the Public Trustee in England barely exists because the entire merger proposal was bungled and under-resourced. People seem incapable of learning from past mistakes. Bureaucrats seem to have created an art form of appearing to do something clever when in reality what is going on involves rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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