Super-portfolios- a super-efficiency or super-disaster?

[ozbob]

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20th June 2015

Greetings,

Super-portfolios- a super-efficiency or super-disaster?

We agree with the Courier-Mail article that more ministers must be appointed. Super portfolios are a recipe for a super-disaster.

There are only 24 hours in a day. Fact. If a minister is juggling multiple portfolios, then each policy area will have its focus spread thinly. Specialisation is an efficiency. Multitasking is not - it is a recipe for catastrophe. Action comes from the narrowing, not broadening, of focus.

We already have major problems with the 3-year election cycle which promotes policy instability,  pushing up risk and cost for large infrastructure projects (e.g. Cross River Rail / BaT / Cross River Rail). The last thing Queensland needs distracted ministers with their eye off the ball.

Despite being Queensland Labor policy to extend concession fares to the unemployed we are still waiting.  Fare reform for SEQ is well overdue.  Bus network reform is urgently needed for Brisbane.

We concur, the transport portfolio should have its own minister and supporting assistant minister.

Best wishes
Robert

Robert Dow
Administration
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RAIL Back On Track http://backontrack.org

References:

Queensland Government: Overworked ministers struggling to manage with hard Labor
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/queensland-government-overworked-ministers-struggling-to-manage-with-hard-labor/story-fntuy59x-1227406478540