Any citizen or resident who gets picked on in parliament has the right to ask for their side of the story to go into Hansard, and the former Australian Border Force commissioner wants to use it. Read More
The Department of Home Affairs has agreed to tell a Senate committee what led border control officials to advise Minister Peter Dutton there was a… Read More
New Senior Executive Services promotions in the Australian government, including two acting deputy secretaries officially promoted to Band 3 following experience in the PMO and Turnbull camp. Also, the CEO of the Climate Change Authority moves to a new portfolio. 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
Michael Pezzullo preemptively defends the new Department of Home Affairs structure from "those who would seek to unravel those linkages" and argues his bailiwick offers the best chance of restoring public trust in governments in a chaotic world. Read More
Poor information security in government can have serious consequences for individual citizens and organisations in the community, but cyber resilience is still too rare in… Read More
The latest version of the Chrome browser warns users that several Australian government websites are insecure, but the federal cyber security agency is telling citizens to ignore the warnings. 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
Poor record-keeping practices have continued through several machinery-of-government changes to live on in the Department of Home Affairs, reports auditor-general Grant Hehir, adding that a… Read More
Tight limits on public service workforce growth can make life difficult for agencies whose services to the public experience ever-growing demand, in line with normal… Read More
Security issues and claims based on unauthorised disclosures to the media have taken centre stage as the Senate's post-budget estimates hearings kicked off in Canberra. Read More
Federal government procurement will be covered by incoming legislation aimed at forcing companies to look into their supply chains for links to modern slavery and… Read More
Commonwealth Ombudsman Michael Manthorpe has told his former Immigration colleagues to have yet another go at fixing detention review processes after an administrative error led to a man being detained for almost four years while holding a valid visa. 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
Sometimes, exchanges in Senate estimates start to sound like the Monty Python skit about the argument clinic. Read More
