Good news for anyone who wants to go to jail. Queensland Corrective Services wants YOU!
Announcing a new recruitment drive to attract staff for its Capricornia Correctional Centre, the QCS is after 76 custodial correctional officers and 6 trade instructors with all to be signed, sealed and delivered for training by the end of this month.
Keen to attract only the most experienced and familiar new recruits for jail service, the Corrections Service went straight to the heart of the workforce declaring it was “seeking Queensland’s ‘82 most wanted’ to join the front line of public safety.”
Either a cunning plan to lure the State’s ‘most wanted’ into jail, or making a genuine offer of jobs for criminals on the run, the cleverly creative call reminds PS-sssst! of the wise old warning to be careful of what one wishes for in case one gets it!
Higher authority
Just when the Coronavirus and its devilish accomplices shake up the public sector with all sorts of uncertainties and apprehensions, it is soul-saving to learn that at least one corner of the PS is fighting back.
The former Patent Office, now IP Australia, is leading the way by launching the 2020 edition of its highly acclaimed Intellectual Property Government Open Data collection, making clear that COVID’s dastardly evil will not intimidate, bully, browbeat or embarrass the heaven that is the PS.
IP has done this by angelically abbreviating its collection the ‘IPGOD2020!’
No prizes for guessing who’s on IP Australia’s side from now on!
Attorneys again!
Tardy but never too late, Karlena L from the Australian Taxation Office has entered the debate over why a collection of Attorney-Generals are more correctly identified as Attorneys-General with the plural ‘s’ preceding the word ‘General’.
Karlena accredits her teachers with the cause: “The term Attorneys-General is correct according to the grammar I was taught at school,” she explained pedagogically.
“The reasoning is the component of the word that is plural is Attorneys, indicating more than one Attorney, but they are all General.
“This is the same as Mothers-in-law if you have more than one.”
Right you are Karlena. Well done.
A fabulous PS-sssst! prize pack (Book, Torch/Pen and T-Shirt) is on its way for sharing and shedding the light.
Displaced finds new homes
To Rama’s weekly giveaway now in which two lucky readers have the chance to win a copy each of John Kinsella’s acclaimed memoir of life in in the Western Australian bush, Displaced: A rural life, simply by naming the State whose farming community the author felt a kinship with.
No surprises for recognising that that State was Western Australia, a realisation that won copies of the book for Gerard D from the national Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, and Karlena L from the Australian Taxation Office, each of whom hit WA right on the spot.
Congratulations to Gerard and Karlena – whose correct entries also managed to spring out of the PS News Barrel of Booty first, qualifying them for the prizes at all levels.
Thanks to everyone who took part in Rama’s fun. The new book prizes will be on their way to their new homes any day now.
For another chance to take Rama on and show her what a winner looks like, try this week’s giveaway by entering her fabulous DVD giveaway of The Postcard Killings at this PS News link and her brilliant book titled Rules of Belonging at this equally exciting PS News link.
As always, Rama’s giveaways are free to enter but you have to be in it to win it!
Good luck to all who do and are!
Search and receive
And finally, a word of encouragement to readers keen to delve into the PS News past for references old and new that the process is surprisingly easy and remarkably thorough.
Simply put the 🔍 in the top right hand corner of the page to work by entering the delving reference and then watch in awe as the wonder of computation does the rest.
Till next week…..
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