Govt abandons $210m 'shared services' white elephant
Corporate services gambit abandoned, taxpayers left with the bill.
Corporate services gambit abandoned, taxpayers left with the bill.
The country's artwork and artefacts could be forgotten after years of budget cuts, researchers say.
Renowned criminologist David Biles died in Canberra on April 16, 2017.
Commonwealth bureaucrat preferred $98,000 uni course to job that was "beneath her".
The ACT government graduate program is attracting thousands of applicants in a competitive jobs market.
The salaries of senior ministerial advisers have attracted scrutiny at Senate estimates hearings
Where is the detail of plans to decentralise public service departments? There isn't much.
Meanwhile its rate of on-time product approvals dropped to an historic low of 42 per cent.
A late boost in funding will not restore the national gallery's staff numbers.
Audit says federal APS departments are ineffective in managing underperforming staff.
The government's digital services agency was not called to clean up after the test trial went wrong.
The former senior Labor government figures will back Immigration staff on the stand.
The government's digital services agency was not called to clean up after the test trial went wrong.
Sir Robert Menzies' daughter adds her criticism to decentralisation plans for Canberra.
"Half-baked" decentralisation push under more scrutiny from Labor.
A leadership shake up at Austrade comes after a new chief executive started work in February.
But a chilly reception expected when BoM public servants verdict on Monday on a proposed workplace deal.
Australia continues to assist in international prosecutions where the death penalty is an option, while underpinning its bid for a seat on the United Nation's Human Rights Council with a call to abolish capital punishment worldwide.
Unpaid Canberra IT contractors didn't know their problems were a sub-plot in a scandal to hit the Tax Office.
The largest APS departments will demolish each other's cyber defences this September.
A culture of fear stops public servants reporting managers' misconduct, a whistleblower says.
Departments could be slugged with $1.8 million fines under new privacy code.
DHS to use Tax Office information about pensioners' interest earnings and asset values.
Public sector wages fall way behind cost of living while the ACT creates no new full time jobs.
NBN Co bean counters fork out $437,000 on taxpayer-funded coffee as 'productivity measure'.
Chris Parker named as new APVMA boss by Barnaby Joyce.
Subbies are hurting as contractors on government projects delay payments to maximise cashflow, an inquiry hears.
Call centre outsource plan is a security risk, says public service union.
National Party lost 69-year hold on power last November. Now they will put a new APS agency there.
Critics of the program say greater human oversight is needed. But the department in charge of "robo-debt" disagrees.
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.
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