http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/state-election-2011/labor-cooked-the-books-20110328-1cdjl.html
In one of the first signs of a shake-up to the senior ranks of the public service following the election, the secretary of the Treasury, Michael Schur, has been sent on ''immediate leave'' while an audit of the state's finances is carried out by Michael Lambert, a former Treasury secretary. Mr Schur's removal came as Mr O'Farrell clashed with the state's largest public sector union over the dumping of another senior public servant, Michael Coutts-Trotter, the director-general of education. The Public Service Association said the decision by the likely education minister, Adrian Piccoli, was related to Mr Coutts-Trotter's Labor Party links. It criticised the move as at odds with Mr O'Farrell's election promise to judge public servants by their performance (see report, page 5).
