Kerry Kennedy — who died recently in Canberra aged 69 — was a quiet champion of excellence in public administration, a committed family man and a fine baritone. Read More
Federal spending with companies that qualify as Indigenous-owned under the current procurement policy has ticked over $2 billion since mid-2015, but one outspoken Aboriginal businessman argues only a few have benefited while acknowledging recent efforts to tighten up the rules. Read More
The Department of Defence faces three charges of breaching the Commonwealth Work Health and Safety Act over the death of soldier Jason Challis during a… Read More
The Department of Defence secretary believes collaboration will be the single most important vector for improving the Australian Public Service. Read More
Australia's best public sector grad programs, indexed. Public sector agencies generally don’t do enough to explain what working in a government department is really like to students. Read More
Top Home Affairs official, Michael Pezzullo, says he has seen "a dark kaleidoscope of future stormy possibilities" which threaten a great cost on the nation, but Australia has seen and dealt with these types of challenges before. Read More
With a stroke of the Governor General's pen, the end of legal gender-based restrictions on women in the Australian Defence Force will soon be official. Read More
A shakeup inside Australia's federal Indigenous Affairs bureaucracy will see its top official, Andrew Tongue, replaced with the recently retired Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Ray Griggs. Read More
Tony Fraser, currently the managing director of Airbus in the Asia Pacific, has been announced as the Department of Defence's next head of the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group. Read More
New Senior Executive Services promotions in the Australian government, including a new Director-General and 6 new First Assistant Secretaries, plus a large cohort of new senior executives in Home Affairs. Also, what John Fraser did next. Read More
The Australian Government Security Vetting Agency is considering a range of advice from the constellation of companies that do its leg-work as it devises a plan… Read More
It's an uncomfortable fact that NAIDOC, which promotes the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures, has rarely made the cut for many state and federal government bodies -- despite the priority those governments have given to Indigenous advancement. But that's changing. Read More
The importance of procurement officials being smart buyers has emerged as the main theme of the Australian National Audit Office’s work over the first few… Read More
As the government beefs up its investment in digital government, Digital Transformation Minister, Michael Keenan, has tapped Telstra's former lead researcher, Jack Dan, to be his senior adviser. Read More
It is hard to overstate the importance of the federal government’s decision to create a consumer right over the data created about them. The Mandarin's publisher Tom Burton pulls apart where digital government is going and what it will take to get there. Read More
