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Decentralisation made me 'devil incarnate': Barnaby Joyce
Moving pesticides authority and other government agencies proved controversial for Barnaby Joyce.
Moving pesticides authority and other government agencies proved controversial for Barnaby Joyce.
Australia is behind Oman and Malaysia on a new world ranking of cyber security cooperation.
NBN Co. told the Senate detailing food and wine costs for corporate events would be a waste of resources.
Moving pesticides authority and other government agencies proved controversial for Barnaby Joyce.
Officials won't reveal who signed Justin Jedlica into Parliament House for privacy reasons.
Electronic security systems are being added alongside new steel fencing.
Lawyers say more than 100 people have registered for the action, which could be worth $12 million.
Work to move the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority to Armidale is continuing.
The Finance Department is reforming the claims system after a scathing review.
You can even do a "suburb face-off" by comparing data from your own locality with that of your friends' suburbs.
The ATO says public confidence in its work will take another hit from Wednesday's outage.
Employees of the Spanish government in Australia are striking over a nine year pay freeze.
Outages have hit the Tax Office's IT system on Wednesday.
Just "routine business processes", claims the Child Support Agency.
The $165 million Plutus tax scandal has "tarnished" the reputation of Australian Taxation Office, the commissioner of taxation Chris Jordan has conceded, saying the wealth allegedly accumulated by members of the syndicate was "staggering".
More 'disrupters' quit as public service takeover of DTA continues.
Get-tough approach to public servants' compo claims pays off.
The head of the federal government's Australian Border Force has left active duty following an external investigation.
Federal ICAC? Don't want it, don't need it, says the public service authority.
You won't see public servants' bias when they know you're watching.
Why are we so confused about this bilateral relationship?
A shooting war between the US and Iran would set off a chain of uncontrollable conflicts.
A eulogy for one of Australia's most prominent scholars of public administration.
Without robust government, nothing stands between citizens and a rapacious corporate sector.
Tasmanian Liberal senator Jonathon Duniam is getting in on the government's decentralisation plans.
In many cases, public servants' conflicts of interest remain effectively unmonitored.
"Unconscious bias" techniques could do more harm than good, Prime Minister's nudge unit finds.
Proposal was to give staff half the wage rises being paid in other departments.
In the era of data-driven politics, pressing the flesh and listening to voters still matter.
Public servants' advice column: we put your workplace woes to an executive coach.
Prime Minister and Cabinet public servants finally agree to new workplace deal.
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.