Australians soon to have nowhere to hide from their student debts, top tax man warns.

The Immigration Department is struggling to cope with a massive influx of inquiries about the government's changes to the citizenship test, with callers turned away or placed in lengthy queues.

Public servants could be hit for hundreds of thousands as government curbs tax breaks.

ASIO is about to lose some of its spooks.

Telework could be the future if only APS culture would change, experts say.

The Spanish government is accused of refusing to hand over years worth of superannuation payments to two employees.

Productivity Commission pours cold water on decentralisation benefits.

• COMMENT

It's city v country, and Agrarian Socialists against everyone who disagrees with them.

• COMMENT

The national capital is best at the business of government because it was set up for it.

APVMA boss at the centre of the Armidale storm defects to the ACT Government.

ACT chief minister Andrew Barr will ask the federal government to reaffirm its commitment to Canberra as the heart of the Australian public service as part of a new 'city deal' currently under negotiation.

• ANALYSIS

We put on our Nationals caps and came up with a top 10.

Plans for further decentralisation of public servants was mired in confusion, less than 24 hours after policy was launched.

Canberra's small businesses feel they're set to take a dive from the federal government's proposed public servant exodus.

"I don't know if I could have left", ACT parliamentarian and former federal public service Tara Cheyne says.

• ANALYSIS

Recent history suggests office moves will be resisted so strongly that many won't happen.

Maybe this is how the Nationals will work out who to split the departments between their electorates?

• Editorial

Australia can withstand another political stunt but cannot afford Barnaby Joyce's decentralisation push.

The case for keeping public servants in one place.

Government divisions and agencies face being split as part of the latest decentralisation push from Canberra.

The Coalition government is trying to open the way for a mass clear-out of Commonwealth departments from Canberra.

Public service boss turns up the heat on BBQ blabbers.

A debt collection agency contracted by the Department of Human Services under its controversial "robo-debt" program was paid on a commission basis used by private companies and had KPIs, a Senate inquiry has heard.

Public service giant to step down in May.

Big barriers remain to a settlement of marathon industrial stoush at science organisation.

Public servants told what to say to friends and family about controversial agency move to Armidale.

Our best and brightest public servants are being poorly utilised in policy responses, a former high-ranking official has warned.

Department of Finance figures show the federal public service travel bill cost $427 million.

• COMMENT

We endorse universal healthcare. Why not the need for universal shelter?