With just a few short weeks to Christmas, the Queensland Public Service (QPS) has hit the looming holiday road with the wish that year 2021 will be more cooperative than its disappointingly visionless antecedent 2020.
“As we say goodbye to the year that was 2020, hopefully, we can leave the stress and unrest that it has caused behind us,” called Earl from the QPS, distributing the pictured greeting card.
“I think this Australian greeting card sums up our hopes and aspirations for a better year ahead as we all recover from a year that has left us all drained, exhausted, and unhappy,” the enlightened Earl said.
Top marks to Earl and the QPS.
Why limit Merry and Happy to Christmas when the rest of a stressful year like 2020 could do with just as much encouragement?
Girls right out!
Excellent news now from the formerly embattled public sector in Victoria with moves to ensure women are given the opportunity of participate in all manner of sporting competitions, even if the participation is limited to calling the game on the media.
Announcing this new move, the State’s Minister for Community Sport has set the sporting scene by delving deeply into the sports reporters’ seemingly unending collection of maxims, axioms, aphorisms and platitudes to get her message across.
“The Government is levelling the playing field for women and girls” the Minister punned and proverbed “across all levels of the … sector.”
“Several game-changing initiatives … will provide a much-need injection …. for women’s voices in sport to be heard”, she added.
The Minister also pointed out the program would be “led by a team of media experts ….” with “23 up and coming female leaders” who “scored a Change Our Game Scholarship”.
“These programs continue to break down the barriers ….” she added.
Such creative catch-phrasing deserves a scoreboard of recognition.
Judges’ verdict: Minister 9. English language retired hurt!
Napping?
Since their beginning, PS-sssst! and PS News have made it their rules that neither will delve into the dark art of politics when delivering public service messages but a recent proverb popped up that proved irresistible.
“Politicians and babies’ nappies should be changed often,” a wise adviser counselled wisely.
“And both for the same reason!”
Oh dear!
Flow with the cash
To Rama Gaind’s last and final book prize for 2020 now with her closing offering a book that solves the crisis of a cashflow collapse, Smarter Business Stronger Ca$hflow by CPA-qualified accountant Paul Roach.
To find out how to get that cashflow flowing again by winning Rama’s giveaway book for the week, all we needed to do was answer her quirky quiz question and tell her what every business owner dreams about.
The answer is that every business owner dreams about making more money on their bottom line and the first two readers whose correct entries were the first to emerge from the PS News Barrel of Booty came from Meryl Z from the National Disability Insurance Agency and Ruth D from the Department of Home Affairs.
Congratulations to Meryl and Ruth and a big Christmassy thanks to all who took part. The prize books will be on their way to their new owners shortly.
And while Rama will not be here next week sharing her charity, she plans to be back in the New Year, dispensing her largesse, goodness, kindness and unselfishness to another year of winners in what we hope will be a much more cultured and hopefully more compliant year than the one we hope to bury in a month.
Rama will see you then!
Welcome in!
And finally, a wonderfully warm welcome to the discerning, discreet and discriminating 1,200+ readers who wisely joined the PS News family as subscribers in November and now enjoy all the PS news worth knowing, fresh from the nooks and crannies of the public sector all over Australia.
As delighted as we are to welcome our new news-lovers, we’re equally delighted to report they were just a few of the 5,166 new readers who hopped on the PS News subscription list since February of this year, signing up to have the latest news about the PS delivered to their workplaces free of charge every week.
And, as is our penchant for penchantry PS-sssst! recognises those who delivered the biggest differences.
Top of the list is the Western Australian Public Sector which saw 2,756 new subscribers sign up for PS News in 2020, taking their full list to15,977; then came the ACT whose 1,359 new subscribers took them to 13,335 at the end of the year; followed by NSW adding 963 new subscribers to have 21,171 at the end of the year; then Victoria’s extra 335 so they end up with 21,873; Queensland whose new 144 took their final number to 13,812; and the Northern Territory whose 49 new subscribers took the total to 1,221.
Well done everyone!
Till next week…….
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