Oh dear. The NSW Attorney General continues to roll out grand plans that cannot be afforded by the state's coffers and certainly cannot be carried on the budget of his own department. The latest reannouncement is the creation of a Justice Precinct in Newcastle. It will be a smaller scale version of the gargantuan expensive monster built at Parramatta but costing at least $60 million.
More centralisation in this department reflects the Ritzer theory about the worst aspects of McDonaldization in society: predictability, calculability, control and "efficiency".
Looks like yet another parthenon-like building to be erected under a tuckered out bureaucracy!
Oh and don't mind the reasoned case put up by the local legal profession questioning Hatzistergos' idea for redeveloping the Civic Centre as the site. Improvements can be made but must not be based on the current public administration policies rolled out in the NSW Attorney General's Department.
What if $60 million was invested in employing people to work in the courts and in the agencies absorbed by the Attorney General's Department? What about saving money by curtailing the extravagant expenditure of the Department?
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