Consultants boom, bureaucrats bust: the hidden cost of public service cuts
'Fascinated with consultants': federal government spends big on big four.
'Fascinated with consultants': federal government spends big on big four.
Labor comes to defence of public service strikers as workers are warned by govt to 'think carefully'.
Public Service Commissioner blames the law, not public service incompetence.
Barbs fly as public servants prepare to walk off the job.
Basic technical error derails efforts to impose new workplace agreements on 100,000 Commonwealth public servants.
Public service bosses don't see much to talk about on wages and conditions.
Part time or casual work might ease public service's grey army out the door, says Commissioner.
''Smoke and mirrors'' from the Immigration Department is masking a paltry 4.7 per cent pay offer, says a union.
An ABC presenter has lost her bid for workers' compensation after she broke her hip while jogging near her home in Sydney's west two years ago.
No workers' compo for public servant suffering anxiety and 'adjustment disorder' after meeting with bosses four years ago.
South Australia's finest appear to suffer the most from this affliction.
Biosecurity scare exposes flaws in the handling of dangerous organisms.
Thoughtful, respectful debate of this legislation is probably beyond this Parliament.
More than half a dozen Community Services Directorate workers have been re-hired within two years of being handed redundancy payments.
Thousands of public servants reported corruption at work last year.
But heads won't roll over scathing report into consultancies at air traffic agency.
The federal government concedes the cost of moving public servants from Canberra to northern NSW doesn't stack up.
Crossbench powerbroker Senator Nick Xenophon has called for a review of the federal lobbying register and code of conduct.
Defence Department down to just one in-house naval architect to work on the sprawling submarines program.
The voluble man reclined on the couch, looked at the graph the senator was presenting to him on screen and dismissed it with a wave.
Canberra-based husband and wife team arranged consultancies worth up to $5000 a day.
Rudd is a dyed-in-the-wool troublemaker. Why couldn't cabinet make that call?
It's important to remember that no census has ever been perfect.
If the census data turns out to be generally reliable for policymakers, much will be forgiven.
Government managers should think carefully before intruding into staff's private lives.
The Tax Office will force its workers who fail their employer-sponsored uni courses to pay full tuition fees.
One in six federal public servants were bullied or harassed last year.
More CSIRO jobs are on the line as the Coalition plans to de-fund he Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
What does the census debacle tell us about the bureaucracy's capacity and its changing role?
Omnibus savings bill contains lethal threat to Australia's clean energy innovation effort, say researchers.
Senior public servants have been told to improve their management skills.
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.
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