This week in Public Circus, a closer look at govt’s health service board overhaul shows some significant departures – & early word of members w terms until 2028 pushed out

But also the resignation of one such director who’d emerged at a fmr Health DG-run consultancy which had won ~$2m from the HHS

A Crisafulli govt bill under parliamentary processes would expand harsher youth sentencing a third time, unwind Qld’s three-strike drug diversion program, and extend police search and move-on powers

The Qld Human Rights Commission, under new boss Debbie Platz, has decided not to make a submission

In Public Circus this week, word of a TMR corporate division town hall which did little to skirt around a hiring freeze the dept wants to publicly call anything but (ie “vacancy management plan”)

But stretched staff were told some gaps will be temporarily filled… by consultants

In this week’s Public Circus, Dale Last quietly lobbed a direction to his dept in late Feb to contest native title applications – a major shift in longstanding, legally set, approach

The rippling uncertainty has even led the Fed Court to start asking Qs. Lucky, bc Last & his dept won’t answer ours

The second Public Circus, our weekly Queensland public sector column, is up. And it’s standing room only.

There’s more public sector movement (& cash) to consultants, uncertainty over the State Library’s stripped awards, a bottle of bubbles for the most clued-in at DPC, & a Games boss’ Maserati

Another change to BT’s coverage in my round: we’re now running a blog on parliament days to help share key events and themes, or anything else of note.

Here’s a snapshot of today’s headlines in that space, including the government’s previously flagged drug reform reversal