Premium Columnists David Gruen and the ABS’s overhaul of its jobs data-gathering will give us current information to act on Tuesday April 21, 2020 By Bernard Keane Appointing Dr David Gruen as the Australian Statistician has turned out to be one of the better and most farsighted appointments this government and its… Read more
The Value of the Census when combined with other data Tuesday July 2, 2019 By Gene Tunny and Nicholas Gruen and Matt Balmford Career Advice By combining Census data with Australian government administrative data, the ABS has found more highly educated people have longer working lives and retire later. This… Read more
The promise and problems of including ‘big data’ in official government statistics Monday November 12, 2018 By Fleur Johns, Caroline Compton & Wayne Wobcke Case studies Digital technologies put an abundance of data at our fingertips, but we must ensure questions of what should, and should not, be measured are answered… Read more
Public Sector Innovation Awards go to ABS, AUSTRAC, DFAT, Home Affairs Monday July 23, 2018 By Stephen Easton Australian Capital Territory An international coding competition, the marriage law postal survey and a visualisation of the healthcare situation across the Pacific have come up trumps in the… Read more
Strategies for working smarter: insights from innovators Wednesday June 6, 2018 By Slatterys Career Advice Hear from ABS, ANZ, Atlassian, Australia Post, Department of Defence, and Qantas on their strategies for working better at AgileAus 2018: 18-19 June, Crown Palladium,… Read more
Giant federal data integration project accepts 14 ways to improve privacy and security Thursday April 5, 2018 By Stephen Easton News The federal government’s Multi-Agency Data Integration Project has gone through an independent privacy impact assessment, and the six big agencies involved have agreed to 14… Read more
Should family violence be considered a workplace issue? Tuesday October 24, 2017 By The Mandarin Career Advice As of last week, WA public servants now have access to 10 days paid domestic and family violence leave. The Mandarin Associate Publisher James Judge… Read more
