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Armidale rolls out the welcome mat for public servants
The northern NSW city is preparing to welcome pesticides authority staff in the coming years, despite accusations of pork barrelling, politicking and opposition from workers.
The northern NSW city is preparing to welcome pesticides authority staff in the coming years, despite accusations of pork barrelling, politicking and opposition from workers.
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Taxpayers billed $1 million for five months of "agile coaching".
A trickle of boats from Indochina changed Australian refugee policy for good.
John Howard ended up selling the controversial property barely a year after he officially opened it.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet backed the idea; the Treasury didn't.
The northern NSW city is preparing to welcome pesticides authority staff in the coming years, despite accusations of pork barrelling, politicking and opposition from workers.
Complaints to the Australian Taxation Office have increased by more than 40 per cent in three years, amid thousands of job losses and serious IT system failures.
"If that had been a male, injured while having sex, I bet that case would have got up."
Federal government pays nearly $180,000 legal bill in battle to avoid paying $20,000 for public servant's breast reduction.
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Here's to 2016, more different to 2015 than most people realise.
Turnbull announces recommendation for Jane Halton's replacement.
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The federal health department has taken to monitoring social media for complaints and commentary about the long-delayed roll-out of the national My Health Record program.
The public service traditional Christmas shutdown used by bosses to trim employees' leave balances.
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Contractors cost 80 grand more than public servants, Finance Departments says, and the public service hires more of them.
Public servants at ACMA, ABS and IP Australia all say no to deals offered under government's controversial policy.
Nightmare before Christmas for thousands of ATO casuals.
Hundreds of IT staff working 'massive' hours to fix big and complex mess.
Department blows $160 million on IT system that is 5 years late and still not working.
Tax office says it will fast-track refunds "where we can."
ATO pay negotiation stalemate set to drag on into 2017.
Attorney-General George Brandis has named a constiutional lawyer as the nation's next top legal adviser.
Vast amounts of data stored by the ATO have been lost in an IT crash.
The Tax Office ruled out a census-style "denial of service" attack as the reason for the loss of its entire website, saying the massive failure was due to hardware problems "not being caused by any external factors".
Commonwealth prosecutors have again shot down a pay deal offered by Turnbull government.
Contributors are paying for the digitising of new content after cuts forced the National Library of Australia to stop funding Trove's expansion.
The union has cried foul over the ballot of nearly 2000 workers in the office of federal politicians, alleging that many were unfairly denied the right to vote.
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Flamboyant and fabulously well-paid, but is he the right man?
Even the ability to redirect funds has little effect in battles over 'bias'.
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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.