'Dominance and elitism': when PM's public servants go to war

By Noel Towell
Updated August 18 2017 - 6:33pm, first published 6:22pm
News.  generic file photo.  The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Barton on National Circuit.    19 June 2014. Canberra Times photo by Jeffrey Chan.
News. generic file photo. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Barton on National Circuit. 19 June 2014. Canberra Times photo by Jeffrey Chan.

The Prime Minister's public service department was riven by internal tension, hostility and mistrust after the hasty changes ordered by the Abbott government, a new academic study has found.

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