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Meanwhile its rate of on-time product approvals dropped to an historic low of 42 per cent.

Where is the detail of plans to decentralise public service departments? There isn't much.

Corporate services gambit abandoned, taxpayers left with the bill.

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.

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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.

Don't understand superannuation law? Neither do many Tax Office "experts", internal survey reveals.

Cyber Security Minister Dan Tehan says the government can't rule out vulnerabilities to cyber threats.

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The Commonwealth public service is beginning a push toward gender-neutral bathrooms at its Canberra headquarters, to foster greater inclusiveness of transgender and intersex employees.

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.