Yes Premier

When the NSW Government is rapidly going down the tubes, when hospitals and schools are falling apart, the most important thing on the mind of the Premier's Department would be lime coloured paper.

From the SMH:

NSW faces a $1 billion budget deficit but the Rees Government's best and brightest have put their faith in a lime-led recovery.

In a bureaucratic edict that would impress even Sir Humphrey Appleby, of Yes Minister fame, staffers have been ordered to use a new colour-coded system to order information for the Premier.

A startling email from Michael Petrie, chief of staff to the new head of the Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC), John Lee, instructs staff to use lime green paper when requesting a briefing for Mr Rees.

"The lime will facilitate the Premier requesting a briefing from DPC on the issue specified on the lime," Mr Petrie wrote.

"Limes will then be given to the executive officer, DG's office and allocated to the relevant division by the DG's chief of staff.

"DPC officers are to respond to the requests in limes as a priority … When pinks are prepared in response to limes, the lime must be clipped to the front of the pink. The pink, with lime, should then be submitted as usual to the relevant DDG [deputy director-general].

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