Martin Tenni discusses the selection of directors general as well as his relationships with the directors general he worked with during his ministerial career. He discusses the staffing of his ministerial office and the duties of his office staff.
Brian Head discusses the sacking, redeployment and kitchen leave of senior public servants at the start of the Borbidge Government. He notes that because he could not be sacked, he was re-deployed to the Department of Main Roads at a lower pay level in 1996. He discusses Borbidge's re-appointment of many Bjelke-Petersen era public servants, and the public discontent with these actions.
