Former prime minister Paul Keating does, and he sparked a kerfuffle last night by saying senior foreign intelligence and domestic security officers should be turfed out. He thinks they have "lost their strategic bearings" and unnecessarily soured diplomatic relations with China. Read More
Are aid facilities having a positive or negative impact on aid effectiveness? The increasing reliance on facilities has become controversial in the Australian aid program. Read More
Labor is crying foul over their missed opportunities to quiz public servants after Senate estimates was cut short by the beginning of the election campaign period, but they could have voted to keep the hearings going earlier. So, which agencies got a break? Read More
Leaders at the top level of the Australian Public Service will soon have a go-to list of executive coaches, and separately, foreign aid officials are putting together a panel of consultants to support them and other agencies with policy design, review, monitoring and evaluation. 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
For International Women’s Day, Senator Marise Payne spoke to a packed Great Hall at Parliament House this week on women in public sector leadership, drawing… Read More
Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne has challenged all Australian Public Service bosses to put in place support for staff experiencing domestic violence, using the… Read More
The head of DFAT gives a diplomatic perspective on the recent establishment of the Australian Space Agency while addressing the UN, including the future of multilateral space diplomacy and the creation of rules-based order for the final frontier. Read More
Australian diplomats continue to strongly advocate free trade and multilateral diplomacy in response to Donald Trump’s revival of protectionism and the ensuing threat of trade wars, but that is only one side of the story. Read More
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Frances Adamson briefed business leaders yesterday as the trade war between the United States and China heats up, and said the government needs their support in defending a system of rules for international trade. Read More
While Australia’s foreign aid budget has shriveled to the smallest share of national income ever in the past five years, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been pursuing ways of attracting private venture capital to back local entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific region. Read More
Australia is conducting the first in-depth examination of its cultural and diplomatic clout in an effort to boost its international influence. Between an unpredictable US and a rising China, there's plenty to think about. Read More
Projects that vanish, ministerial over-involvement and a lack of evaluation: there appear to be some major problems with secretive aid initiative InnovationXchange, a new report argues. Read More
The next Australian Public Service Commissioner will be Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's current chief of staff, Peter Woolcott. Read More
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 Public Sector Innovation Awards. Read More
