Editorial: Public service under fire for Phoenix mess

The mind reels, every time there’s a new revelation about the Phoenix pay system. What’s interesting about Tuesday’s auditor general report is that Michael Ferguson re-treads some familiar ground, while also laying out some stern words for the federal public service itself.
“The building and implementation of Phoenix was an incomprehensible failure of project management and oversight,” says the report. It’s Michael Ferguson’s second look at Phoenix in ha