Opening up in Victoria’s Public Service this week where the name of a Department has been identified as plain brilliant and possibly the cleverest PS-sssst! has ever seen.
The Department is the seemingly average public service Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions, which just happens to be the department dealing with the possibility of ticket scalpers coming to town when the coming Taylor Swift concert hits the ground.
The Department announced that Ms Swift’s concerts had been officially declared a ‘Major Event’ in Victoria, which meant concert-goers were protected from being ripped off by ticket scalpers, “ensuring that tickets are available at a fair price.”
It was then that the cleverness of the concert-happy Department was unveiled.
It signed a sentence with its abbreviation: ‘DJSIR’.
“DJ” and ‘Sir’!
What better name for a Department running concert tickets!
Could this level of cleverness be the first to be born with a hidden meaning, or could it be the start of an exciting new trend in the public sector nomenclature?
PS-sssst! can’t wait to find out!
The end is near
To the national capital now where it appears the future of the city is facing a surprisingly dangerous future.
Announcing the capital had been able to attract specialist medical and paediatric outpatient appointments for patients who chose to be sick at home instead of clog up a hospital, the Minister said it would also undertake a range of initiatives to grow outpatient capacity.
The Minister said that extra funding would “help to address the significant impact of the pandemic and … elective surgeries over the last two years…..”
The LAST two years?
Maybe she meant the past two years!
Language of Rama!
Giveaway time again now when Rama Gaind digs into her collection of complimentary giveaways and makes a reader the luckiest winner of her weekly giveaway game.
This week the lucky reader will become the owner of the team-building book Teams that Swear by Adrian Baillargeon, simply by being the first to tell Rama what Mr Baillargeon says about working in teams.
What he said was that working in teams was like listening to music together “done well, meaningful progress can be made” and the lucky reader whose correct entry was first out of the judges’ Barrel of Booty was Clara K from the Western Australian Department of Communities.
Congratulations Clara and thanks to all who took part in Rama’s regular round of romping reading this week. The book will be on its way to Clara very soon.
For another chance to join Rama’s good luck giveaway game simply visit one of her latest reviews of the Book Stop Worrying About Money at this PS News link to answer her quizzical quiz question and/or her other review of the Book Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution at this link for a second chance.
It’s free, it’s fun and it’s open right now.
May the gods of good luck be with us all!
New readers welcomed
And finally a look at the end of June’s numbers of PS News readers in which another 318 lined up to be welcomed to the PS News family, taking the national total to 190,641 members, every one of which should be very proud of themselves.
Leading the team in June was the Western Australia public sector which added 161 new readers to raise its team to 18,654 for the first time, followed by Tasmania whose extra 56 took its highest ever number to 14,613 and Victoria where just 19 readers were enough to set a new level for the State at 22,929.
Congratulations to all the new record breakers, it’s the regular increases that make counting the monthly memberships a pleasure (not that we do – it’s all done by a computer!).
As we’ve said so many times before, if you keep reading PS News, we’ll keep writing it, although we have to admit it’s getting harder every month just at the moment.
Till next time……
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