The state leadership is bringing power back to the cabinet and a sharp focus on delivery across the nation’s biggest government.
For such an important forum, the design of cabinet gets remarkably little attention, beyond the realm of government academics.
Cabinet as a governance model dates back to the 11th century when a group of prominent men, chiefly from the church and aristocracy, advised the British monarch. Known initially as the privy council, this entity morphed into the ministerial cabinets that today guide most modern governments. The office drove the government’s strategic priorities and gave the premier of the day a heads-up on any unforeseen consequences or background that portfolio officials had missed or were reluctant to reveal – what bureaucrats call the “whiskers” on ministerial ideas.
Murphy worked in the previous cabinet office, but says the challenge of government has changed dramatically since the early 2000s.“What I see now is that the sorts of issues governments are grappling with are increasingly those whole-of-government issues. Climate change, the ageing population, the increasing frequency and impact of natural disasters, and migration issues. These things are all whole-of-government priorities.
King in turn was heavily influenced by UK public delivery expert Sir Michael Barber. Barber ran a similar unit for the UK government andin his obsession with the need for governments to focus on problem-solving and execution. Murphy is the acting secretary and reports directly to Minns. He sits in the officials’ chairs at cabinet meetings, as cabinet secretary. This gives him powerful insights into where ministers want focus, and how to marshall the full resources of the NSW government – the biggest in the country – to make that happen.
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