It’s been two years since the government announced it would establish a Home Affairs portfolio, and just over 18 months since it came into being.

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

Commonwealth Ombudsman Michael Manthorpe has told his former Immigration colleagues to have yet another go at fixing detention review processes, after an error led to

A group of CSIRO staff who run the iconic Tidbinbilla space tracking dishes near Canberra will stop work for one hour this afternoon, arguing federal government payrise limits should not

Michael Pezzullo envisions the new Department of Home Affairs reaching into just about every area of the Australian economy and society, leaning on public and

A single Defence Department was brought together in the 1970s. Later, Foreign and Affairs and Trade were merged, never to be separated again. Now Australia

One of Canberra’s most powerful departmental heads, the deep-thinking Mike Pezzullo, has joined the Lowy Interpreter’s new podcast series, dubbed Canberra Conversations. Here the Institute’s director of

Federal agencies will be hit with a strict $100 million cap on the size of the IT contracts they award to suppliers under strict new

Reading through the accounts of murder, attempted suicide, sexual assault, child abuse and lack of access to medical treatment at the Manus Island detention centre, it’s

User-centred design is becoming popular in the Australian Public Service, to the extent it is possible within the constraints of working in government, but it’s

Fundamentally, regulators with responsibility for maintaining compliance with a specific piece of legislation need to know that act inside out, including what powers it gives

The new Commonwealth (and ACT) Ombudsman is career public servant Michael Manthorpe, who moves directly over from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, where