| More than a decade of chronic flooding has led residents to protest at what they see as shoddy workmanship and buck-passing. |
| Petty buck-passing and blame shifting have for too long characterised Australia's antiquated system of federal-state relations. |
| This buck-passing, despite some valid observations, misses the common point that the momentum of market regulation is fundamentally irreversible. |
| Just as vague and abstract language makes for bad prose, it is also the handmaiden of bad policy and the abettor of buck-passing. |
| In his paper, John Brogden says duplication, divided responsibility, buck-passing and blame-shifting are rife. |
| He is quite right that consultation, spin talk and buck-passing are the preferred options to making an actual decision. |
