Centrelink's data-matching and debt recovery to cost at least $93 million

Finance Department flexed its muscles against flag-ship project of agile government.

When naming the rooms in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade building, its chiefs had a great idea - honour the many distinguished diplomats and public servants who had dedicated their lives to bettering Australia. 

The head of the Turnbull Government's six-month-old Australian Digital Health Agency is getting paid a tidy $522,000 annual salary package, after beating more than 100 other applicants to take the role fixing the plagued My Health Record system.

Human rights pioneer, who broke the news of Harold Holt's disappearance, retires after remarkable seven-decade career.

If you thought the ACT Public Service was the place for plum salaries, you might be surprised.

It's bad now but going to get much worse, warns CPSU as Centrelink denies "pecking order" in debt case reviews.

No more taxpayer funded "exercise shoes" for public servant.

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has launched a wide-ranging investigation into Centrelink's automated debt-recovery processes.

Centrelink is either lying or unacceptably incompetent, says former public service digital guru.

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If I were a public servant I would be getting pretty damn sick and tired of insipid and gutless leadership.

'You have to keep the bastards honest,' Vince McDevitt says.

Canberra MP furious at 'jobs and growth' mantra.

Relocation packages won't come close to covering the full costs of the move, public servants say.

Defence wants to get 'believable and relatable'.

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.

Taxpayers face an even greater slug for Barnaby Joyce's relocation of a Canberra public service agency to the heart of his own electorate.

Prisons agency faces claims of high risk of suicide and self-harm among current and former staff.

Here's to 2016, more different to 2015 than most people realise.

Turnbull announces recommendation for Jane Halton's replacement.

When viewed a certain way, most public servants have voted yes, says Public Service Commission

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.