Paul Grimes, Georgina Harrisson and Rob Sharp will receive tidy redundancies, while top bureaucrat Michael Coutts-Trotter has also been demoted.
Three senior bureaucrats sacked by the NSW government will each receive payouts of about $400,000, as new Premier Chris Minns announces wholesale changes to the state’s public service that will see a return to Carr-era cabinet.that department chiefs Rob Sharp in transport, Paul Grimes in treasury and Georgina Harrisson in education had all been sacked as the incoming Labor government swung the axe across the public service.
. Minns said he had not decided whether Coutts-Trotter would remain in the treasury role beyond the June budget despite being widely respected across the public service. With the DPC to be shuttered as part of a wider overhaul of the public service, Peter Duncan, a veteran former public servant, has been appointed to be the acting head of the bureaucracy and will be responsible for creating a new Cabinet Office and Premier’s Department modelled off the ones used under former premiers Nick Greiner and Bob Carr.
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