Australian state governments act like ‘activists’ over real departments

Sky News contributor Chris Uhlmann says Australian state government departments are operating as “activists” worrying more about heritage issues than actual departmental concerns. “Many of the government departments we have now seem to be operating more as activists than they are as departments,” Mr Uhlmann told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “I feel at the moment it is too much captured by a whole lot of vested interests and too much again is going on behind closed doors, there are decisions being made by bureaucrats that are having effects on the lives of ordinary Australians, and there is no transparency about what is going on.”