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Government tech system spending $100,000 a day on contractors
Another failed Commonwealth IT project ploughing through taxpayers' money.
Another failed Commonwealth IT project ploughing through taxpayers' money.
Dog of a day at Defence as boss reveals consultants and contractors now outnumber public servants
Private sector giants reap $90 million from troubled public service project.
Public service bosses to lose their grip over billions in tech spending.
Government should apologise for the program, not tinker at its edges, opposition says.
ATO's seaside dream fails to pull a crowd as the Coalition warns decentralization is here to stay.
But burden of proof still on welfare agency's clients.
"You just cannot be serious," says Labor as Coalition spruiks its tech cred.
Union hits back at "misleading, inaccurate and insulting" comments.
Another failed Commonwealth IT project ploughing through taxpayers' money.
Public service union leader wants a Senate seat, but the competition is tough.
Centrelink's data-matching "incompetent, cruel and uncaring" Parliament hears.
The rejected plan would have cost at least $22 million more than the current plan to move the Australian Cyber Security Centre to a site near Canberra Airport.
Changing office culture should be everyone's core business.
Industrial action on hold as Centrelink and staff union agree to more talks.
So-called frontline jobs, where bureaucrats interact with the public, can be automated.
Animal medicine industry is worried about minister's policies, says pet owners should be too.
Public servants' strike action over "robo-debt" debacle illegal, say Centrelink bosses.
Greens, Labor join the chorus of opposition to relocation policy.
Sexy policy jobs are for men while women can go and do program work.
IT projects thrown overboard as ATO orders all hands to keep tax time afloat.
Can parliamentarians please stop measuring government efficiency via staff numbers?
Micro-strikes to pile on the pain at troubled welfare agency.
An unrestrained deep state under a pliant US president is the stuff of nightmare.
If we can understand how others feel and what they see, we can predict which policies won't work.
A parliamentary committee will hold public hearings on two departments' decisions to move part of their operations to Brindabella Business Park.
Two recent cases raise troubling questions about the professional behaviour of HR practitioners.
Chris Jordan stood up for all APS staff when he refused to compromise his independence.
How much do government officials really make? Here are some of the best pay packets in government circles.
Public servants' advice column: we put your workplace woes to an executive coach.
The public service needs to embrace partnerships if it's to harvest big data's massive yields.
An unrestrained deep state under a pliant US president is the stuff of nightmare.
Our leaders and institutions are taking us on a bumpy path, heading nowhere useful.
Until we know more about senior bureaucrats' conflicts of interest, we are inviting corruption.
We don't really know to how to use big data and protect personal information at the same time.
The bureaucracy's IR policy is among the most serious problems in public administration today.
South Australia's finest appear to suffer the most from this affliction.
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.