Public servants 'don't need' incentives to decentralise
Friendly neighbours, cheap rent: what more could a public servant want, Nationals ask.
Friendly neighbours, cheap rent: what more could a public servant want, Nationals ask.
Immigration can't say when it will adopt cyber protections, despite missing a 2016 deadline.
Engaged signals soar to 42 million in just 10 months and smart phone apps to blame, says department.
The Nationals say a 'genuine' inquiry into decentralisation will showcase its benefits.
The online world changes so fast it was always going to be tough to design a four-year strategy.
A Coalition move to probe decentralisation would be an exercise in spin, Labor says.
Public servants should face the sack if they if they refuse to work in Darwin, former minister says.
Several long-standing allowances supporting overseas DFAT staff will be axed under budget savings.
Former Indigenous agency chief Russell Taylor urged the APS to engage with Aboriginal communities.
The government is behind on 36 initiatives to protect from cyber threats, a defence think tank says.
Jordan knows "nothing" of fresh Cranston allegations, Senate told.
Senior tax official accused of ordering court case to be dropped as 'favour' for top accounting firm.
Decisive no-vote at weather bureau show government's industrial woes have not gone away
A 'tick box' mentality could be the public service's enemy when it comes to cyber security.
The country's artwork and artefacts could be forgotten after years of budget cuts, researchers say.
Relocation costs for department secretaries remain generous despite crackdown.
Renowned criminologist David Biles died in Canberra on April 16, 2017.
The ACT government graduate program is attracting thousands of applicants in a competitive jobs market.
Commonwealth bureaucrat preferred $98,000 uni course to job that was "beneath her".
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.
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.
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.