There’s a lot of waffle in annual reports outside of the more important indicators such as the financial statements. Some of it is necessary, but a lot is verbiage. It is there to give the impression of structure and process, even form and substance. Much of it is redundant, if not repetitive, as the same tired, stock-standard explanations for departments’ raison d’être rolled out year after year. But then that’s accountability for you and, frankly, too much information is better than too little. One of these annual "fillers" is a section in each annual report on the values particular to each department — the underlining core attitudes and behaviours that supposedly underpin each department’s approach to professionalism. The Presidency is no different, and its latest report tabled in September sets out five values it claims are the basis of its ethos. Let us take the Presidency at its word, and make our way through those values to see how they hold up against some of the more proble...
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