Centrelink making its own rules as it pursues citizens over "robo-debt," Parliament told.

Centrelink out for revenge against blogger who criticised debt collection, says opposition.

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Could it be possible that Centrelink is sometimes unfairly castigated?

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Defence withdraws job ads after complaints that Breitbart News is racist and misogynist.

The Health Department will axe jobs through voluntary redundancies in a move unions warn could shed 250 positions.

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.

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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.