The public service is struggling with 'deep policy thinking'
DFAT's departing head has exposed public administration's false prophets and pointed to a better way.
DFAT's departing head has exposed public administration's false prophets and pointed to a better way.
A former public servant loses legal battle due to national security fears.
ACT Policing said an unspecified number of government departments were emailed the threats anonymously.
Government refuses to pay for $20,000 breast reduction surgery.
Can you imagine a supreme court of any other jurisdiction being as timid as the ACT's?
600 voluntary redundancies not enough at Airservices Australia. Staff want out.
The world changes continuously. The public service must change with it or lose public trust.
Re-elected Canberra MP Gai Brodtmann has vowed to fight as hard as ever for ACT residents to have a voice in Parliament, stridently denying Labor had taken the seat for granted.
Despite its evil image, Iran is probably the safest place to visit in the Middle East.
Australia has outsourced its responsibility for asylum seekers to PNG, but at what cost to its security?
DFAT's departing head has exposed public administration's false prophets and pointed to a better way.
Public servants paying the price of efficiencies.
If you write a reference for an APS job applicant, they can access it. If it's honest, you have nothing to fear.
Public service advice column: we put your workplace conundrums to an executive coach.
APS employees' right to judicial review makes dealing with staff misconduct harder than it should be.
Young female bosses risk being sexually harassed by their own workers, according to new research.
Considering making the leap from the safety of a government job? Here's some advice.
The chairman's defiantly partisan attack during an election campaign was exceptional, not the norm.
Deputy PM sidelines further moves after public backlash.
Tough times for Airservices Australia as hundreds of jobs are to go amid dwindling morale.
A lack of skilled economic analysts in the public service is hurting policy and leading to poor investments, ANU professor warns.
Claims processing must be in the hands of public servants who are not motivated by profit, medical billing services pioneer Margaret Faux has written in a passionate defence of Medicare.
Labor pledges war on waste and death to the efficiency dividend.
Man who exposed Tax Office's 'covert operations' living a Kafka-esque nightmare' says Senator.
Four senior executives have left Territory and Municipal Services in recent months, following merger.
This man blew the whistle on the Tax Office's "covert operations" against taxpayers. They sacked him.
Diversity Council chief executive Lisa Annese has called on senior public servants to dispel myths about the barriers women face in the workforce and career progression.
The Australian Tax Office will co-host the public service's first LGBTI inclusion conference on Friday.
One public servant called the manipulation of figures a 'fraud upon the people of Australia'.
Foreign minister Julie Bishop has defended a small Canberra based agency charged with delivering radical change to the public service.
Court clash looms as former public servant alleges he was forced from job because he is legally blind.
Journalist Phillip Thomson asks whether our work stations are sending us to an early grave.
Can clothes get you promoted?
Forget the yoga mats. Reporter Phillip Thomson finds out how to do yoga at a desk.
Will the office of tomorrow be one of treadmill desks, or are we doomed to a future of cubicle farms? Phillip Thomson investigates.
Flamboyant and fabulously well-paid, but is he the right man?
Even the ability to redirect funds has little effect in battles over 'bias'.
Thousands more govt jobs are likely to be lost in coming years.
Which parts of the bureaucracy are likely to start hiring?
This 'good news' federal budget contains a sting for Canberra.
The Treasury has weakened the entire public service's integrity.
An industrial tribunal will care little for the broadcaster's political woes.
We can't afford to miscalculate the costs of runaway climate change.
Cormann needs to think more deeply about independence.
Time for a systemic review of the value of public servants' labour.
The bizarre approach to telling people which houses may be toxic.
Linking salaries to productivity at the agency level is bad economics.
Appraisals of Whitlam have been marred by narrow selectivity.
Governments can't put off policy decisions forever.
We put your workplace woes to an executive coach.
Time to withdraw spurious claims against a brilliant public servant.
We put your workplace woes to an executive coach.