Leigh Tabrett notes the incoming Education Minister Paul Braddy's agenda for the department, and comments more broadly on the relationships between the minister and their departments.
Yvonne Chapman discusses her professional relationships with her directors general and on the role of the department with regards to policy ideas and development. She recalls how as minister she adopted some children from Chile.
Rosemary Kyburz reflects on her lack of induction to parliament, her difficulties in dealing with members of her electorate who would come to her house in Salisbury with their problems, establishment of her electorate office, her lack of knowledge of protocols in dealing with the public service.
