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More job cuts and outsourcing for Canberra as budget bites
But local Liberal Senator insists there will be a 'massive investment' in the capital.
But local Liberal Senator insists there will be a 'massive investment' in the capital.
In one instance, $1.1m in provisions for a military exercise was paid for with a credit card, resulting in more than $18k in interest.
Up to 20 per cent of the ATO's workforce now non-public servants, union says.
Agency's rate of approvals plummets to 42 per cent as it prepares for forced move.
This man sacrificed his health in service to his country. Now he says he's about to be repaid with a tax raid on his invalidity benefits.
Former top-ranking public servant Sir Lenox Hewitt has celebrated his 100th birthday with some special guests.
A national survey of how organisations handle privacy shows that 91 per cent believe they could be more transparent with consumers about how their information is used.
The veterans affairs department will spend $180 million clearing its backlogs of claims and modernising IT systems.
Two of Canberra's most popular national institutions will put a budget funding boost towards big programs.
The Department of Human Services will shed nearly 1200 full-time jobs next financial year.
These days, a budget that ignores the ACT seems cause for celebration.
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
Thousands of public servants at large federal department have been affected.
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.
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.