Australia needs more public servants like Mike Pezzullo

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He cuts a much more American than Australian figure. In the States no one would blink at the head of the FBI or NSA having an opinion on the geopolitics of the day. Or with them offering frank and fearless advice on how to balance the political decision-making with the policy agenda. We say we want more ambition in our APS, more frank and fearless advice, more brawlers, but the last week shows we don’t. The government had him fighting for cyber reform and he was making progress, that will be harder now. Our APS talks of American ambition but...