public service 
noun
Australian and NZ term for civil service.The public service needs to be able to express its view without fear or favour....
- Are we entering the post corporate age of the public service that we saw so much of in the 90s?
- It all sounds to me like a neat way of ensuring that the public service is stacked with people from the left.
- give (or lose) ground
- give (or lose) one's heart to
- give or take ——
- give out
- give over
- give pause to someone (or give someone pause for thought)
- give place to
- give pursuit
- giver
- give rise to
- give someone a bell
- give someone a bloody nose
- give someone a break
- give someone a dose (or taste) of their own medicine
- give someone a fit
- give someone a hard time
- give someone a holler
- give someone a mouthful
- give someone an inch and he (or she) will take a mile
- give someone a piece of one's mind
- give someone a shout
- give someone away
- give someone Bondi
- give someone credit for
- give someone grief