Captain Chaos and the 28 year olds

They say that Captain Chaos and the 28 year olds are in charge of the country. To be more precise, The Australian suggests that the PMs two young advisers (28 years old) are having undue influence on running of the country.

This raises the perennial question of the accountability of ministerial advisers. It is often said they aren't accountable for their actions, but in a major corporation is the CEO's executive assistant accountable for the CEO's decisions? In reality the CEO (or by analogy minister) is accountable for their action, and they take the advice of staff at their own risk.

A critical issue is transparency. We need to be able to see the influence that ministerial advisers have on public policy. The Australian has provided a view of ministerial staff (and the PM) and holds them to account for the way they are running the country. However this was just a once-off ambush by a bunch of journalists, and it won't be so easy next time. We need something more reliable than this.