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The Department of Human Services will shed nearly 1200 full-time jobs next financial year.

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These days, a budget that ignores the ACT seems cause for celebration.

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The federal budget at a glance: how it affects you and Canberra.

Defence is reversing years of cuts to its large workforce of public servants, but Canberra's private contractor market can expect a hit.

Little comfort for Canberra as the Coalition splashes the cash.

Austerity as usual in the Australian Public Service

MPs kids won't be allowed to fly business class to Canberra from July.

Alan Tudge won't be investigated over the release of Centrelink information.

Electronic sexual health records and the births, deaths and marriages registry have been left exposed.

The government spent $423 million on travel last financial year, with Defence topping the pile.

"ASIC to Cooma would be fantastic, the white collar criminals would be just across the way in the jail"

Back-up electricity failed at Australia's electronic spy agency that prevents national cyber attacks after a cable fault in January.

A key target in overseas foreign aid was missed last financial year.

Canberra IT contractors are out of pocket thousands of dollars and unable to work after payroll company Plutus Payroll stopped their payments.

ATO makes historic concession while signs of a truce emerge in Human Services' long war.

The council wants to lure smaller federal agencies to Queanbeyan.

Fairfax Media has obtained the review of the crash near Goulburn involving Australian Defence Force Academy recruits.

Minister said 'average' waiting time to talk to Centrelink was 12 minutes. It was actually 27.

Tax office told not to let 'robo-debt' saga spill over to tax time.

Staffing data shows the push to decentralise the public service won't target Canberra.

All of Australia's military personnel stationed overseas and 85 per cent of deployed Australian Federal Police officers have completed training to better protect the human rights of women and girls, a new report shows.

Finding decent short-term workers for the ACT public service could soon become much harder.

Labor MP says the government's price tag of $28 million to move the APVMA from Canberra to Armidale is wrong.

Electric vehicles offer plenty of public benefits but, without coordinated policy and infrastructure, Australia will lag the world.

David Brown oversaw a departmental relocation. He's got a warning for the Nationals.

Managers are advised to be decisive. But, sometimes, the best thing to do is nothing.

Struggling communities need more than the photo opportunity of an office opening.

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This arbitrary, irrational, unproductive, decentralisation 'policy' should end now before its costly failure.

To build effective arguments, we need logos and ethos to underpin political discourse.