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
The business of government is by its very nature based on networks of people and their work. When those networks are connected through a platform like LinkedIn, the work of public servants and the benefits it delivers are enhanced for the common good. Read More
It's been a wild ride for new Defence secretary Greg Moriarty, with more than half the positions in his top leadership team vacated. Roxanne Kelly is the latest to move on. Read More
Forget buzzwords and hype around digital transformation in government. What counts is the frank, fearless and lived experiences of those now making the journey. Read More
The process to select new submarines reflects a long-standing view that civilians cannot be allowed to question military expertise. Michael Keating argues defence planning and acquisitions involve considerations that range well beyond military expertise and the department's advice should be contestable. Read More
Advice from the Department of Defence must be subject to more scrutiny from other agencies, according to the review of Australia's Future Submarine Program. Part of the problem is that it enjoys a "privileged position" in the public service, according to the report. Read More
