TY - Journal article AU - David Bromell PY - 2012 T1 - Creating public value in the policy advice role JO - Policy Quarterly DO - https://doi.org/APO-33089 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/33089 AB - "As a public servant I live with the tension captured in Richard Mulgan’s question: ‘How much responsiveness is too much or too little?’ (Mulgan, 2008). On the one hand, my job is to be responsive to portfolio ministers and to the prime minister and Cabinet. On the other hand, Westminster conventions of public service imply that I ought not to become over-responsive and merely reactive. ER -