If I was Health Department secretary, Martin Bowles, I’d be checking my superannuation paperwork is in order.
Over three hours on Monday morning, in a Senate estimates committee room, Bowles’s public service career blew up.
That morning, Fairfax papers ran a front-page splash on the work of a ‘secret’ policy task force, funded by federal government money, to develop an alternative hospital funding mechanism.
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