❓ A parliamentary question suggests a senior public servant's retirement is due to ministerial incompetence, which the Premier strongly denies, praising her service and defending her decision.
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JANE BRAZIER - CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
As a supplementary question, is this not just another example of a senior public servant taking the rap for incompetent ministers? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
As a supplementary question, is this not just another example of a senior public servant taking the rap for incompetent ministers? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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No. I reiterate, while I am on my feet, that Jane Brazier has served the state with distinction for a very long time; 30 years, in fact. Jane Brazier made her own decision to take retirement. I congratulate her on her career and her contribution to the public service and to community life in Western Australia. Yesterday I passed on my appreciation of the dignified manner in which she alerted me of her desire to retire. Any suggestion that is being floated to the contrary, by way of notes passed around by the member for Churchlands to the second member for Churchlands, the member for Cottesloe, demeans Jane Brazier. She made her own decision to retire, and that is where it ends.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: No. I reiterate, while I am on my feet, that Jane Brazier has served the state with distinction for a very long time; 30 years, in fact. Jane Brazier made her own decision to take retirement. I congratulate her on her career and her contribution to the public service and to community life in Western Australia. Yesterday I passed on my appreciation of the dignified manner in which she alerted me of her desire to retire. Any suggestion that is being floated to the contrary, by way of notes passed around by the member for Churchlands to the second member for Churchlands, the member for Cottesloe, demeans Jane Brazier. She made her own decision to retire, and that is where it ends.
No. I reiterate, while I am on my feet, that Jane Brazier has served the state with distinction for a very long time; 30 years, in fact. Jane Brazier made her own decision to take retirement. I congratulate her on her career and her contribution to the public service and to community life in Western Australia. Yesterday I passed on my appreciation of the dignified manner in which she alerted me of her desire to retire. Any suggestion that is being floated to the contrary, by way of notes passed around by the member for Churchlands to the second member for Churchlands, the member for Cottesloe, demeans Jane Brazier. She made her own decision to retire, and that is where it ends.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: No. I reiterate, while I am on my feet, that Jane Brazier has served the state with distinction for a very long time; 30 years, in fact. Jane Brazier made her own decision to take retirement. I congratulate her on her career and her contribution to the public service and to community life in Western Australia. Yesterday I passed on my appreciation of the dignified manner in which she alerted me of her desire to retire. Any suggestion that is being floated to the contrary, by way of notes passed around by the member for Churchlands to the second member for Churchlands, the member for Cottesloe, demeans Jane Brazier. She made her own decision to retire, and that is where it ends.
No. I reiterate, while I am on my feet, that Jane Brazier has served the state with distinction for a very long time; 30 years, in fact. Jane Brazier made her own decision to take retirement. I congratulate her on her career and her contribution to the public service and to community life in Western Australia. Yesterday I passed on my appreciation of the dignified manner in which she alerted me of her desire to retire. Any suggestion that is being floated to the contrary, by way of notes passed around by the member for Churchlands to the second member for Churchlands, the member for Cottesloe, demeans Jane Brazier. She made her own decision to retire, and that is where it ends.
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