Introduction / Andrew Podger and John Wanna -- Yes, minister : the privileged position of secretaries / Roger Beale -- My fortunate career and some parting remarks / Andrew Podger -- Performance management and the performance pay paradox / Allan Hawke -- Thirty-eight years toiling in the vineyard of public service / Ric Smith -- The last count -- the importance of official statistics to the democratic process / Dennis Trewin -- Balancing life at home and away in the Australian Public Service / Joanna Hewitt -- In the national interest / Peter Shergold -- Impressions, observations and lessons from a Canberra outsider / Robert Cornall -- An unlikely secretary : a boy from the outer agencies / Mark Sullivan -- As if for a thousand years: the challenges ahead for the APS / David Borthwick -- Reflections of an 'unabashed rationalist' / Peter Boxall -- Our custodial role for the quality of advisory relations at the centre of government / Patricia Scott -- A road less travelled -- reflecting on three professional pillars of support / Michael L'Estrange -- There's a telegram for you : fashioning Australia's unique model of public administration / Ken Matthews -- The opportunities, challenges and policy responses for the Australian economy / Ken Henry -- The boss in the yellow suit : leading service delivery reform / Lynelle Briggs -- The challenges for the public service in protecting Australia's democracy in the future / Terry Moran.

"This collection brings together the valedictory speeches and essays from a departing group of secretaries (and one or two other equivalent agency heads) who left the Australian Public Service between 2004 and 2011"--Abstract

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