Controversial pay rises for Tax Office elite put on ice, as bargaining war flares up again.

'What we are doing is wrong,' says insider.

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Until we know more about senior bureaucrats' conflicts of interest, we are inviting corruption.

Centrelink accused of monstering its workers with threats in a bid to keep its secrets.

The Department of Human Services, which controls Centrelink, has failed to meet its own targets for processing age and disability support pension claims, with the number of those processed within its target time falling about 20 per cent over the past three years.

Government looking to claw back more than $2 billion from Australia's parents, pensioners and disabled.

Federal government to unleash robo-assistants on the public in February.

ASP Commissioner treats himself to a $9000 taxpayer-funded office makeover.

Malcolm Buckley joined the Commonwealth Department of Works when Tuggeranong didn't even exist.

Centrelink public servants forced to compete against colleagues to process the most debt notices, Tasmanian independent alleges.

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.