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When do those proposing different ideas cease to be able to talk to each other?

For 12 years, the ACT government has failed to deliver a basic amenity for one of its suburbs.

Are there equivalent verbs elsewhere on the APS classification scale?

A legislative ambiguity may be wrongly crimping public servants' discrimination claims.

Gender parity is not always necessary. Nor is it always enough.

There is no shortage of policy 'fixes', but few governments are brave enough to try them.

Legal protections won't prevent colleagues from making work hell for a 'snitch'.

The history of British imperialism still holds lessons for public administrators.

If we fix the banking system, we'll improve productivity and living standards.

Governments are lacking expertise engineers could provide when it comes to energy.

Appointing experts, not politicians, to cabinet could lead to more evidence-based decision-making.

Israelis and Palestinians look ahead with grim foresight.

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Labor's own factional system remains a vexed thing for the party leader.

A rejected or revoked security clearance can ruin a public servant’s career. Avenues for redress are limited.

Nothing could be more democratic than asking the people directly, right?

Passionate, eccentric, warm-hearted, unpretentious, generous. Mary Scott lived life on her terms.

Public servants look to their bosses when deciding how to deal with a conflict of interest.

Public servants' advice column: we put your workplace woes to an executive coach.

Australia's volume of coal exports is undermining its foreign policy aims in the Pacific.

Without robust government, nothing stands between citizens and a rapacious corporate sector.