The public service should provide training to new members of parliament, ministers and their staff, in the view of senior Commonwealth secretary Martin Parkinson. He also thinks his colleagues should put the spotlight on the cost of restructuring. Read More
The behavioural economics team in the Prime Minister’s department has published hours of valuable educational videos from Behavioural Exchange 2018, the international conference it hosted… Read More
It has taken two and a half years but Nyunggai Warren Mundine has convinced the Minister for Indigenous Affairs to crack down on dubious joint… 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
Verona Burgess analyses former APS Commissioner Andrew Podger’s thought-provoking 8800-word submission to the Thodey review. 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
The co-father of modern nudges, former White House official Cass Sunstein, has five principles that should prevent most of the no-go areas of ethical government interventions. Read More
The sudden rush to opt out of e-health records amid major privacy concerns demonstrates that governments have to be careful about how they use the most powerful nudge of all. Read More
The head of the Australian Public Service has ramped up his campaign for a more responsive and capability-rich bureaucracy, repeating his critque of agencies that outsource core functions and following through with his earlier pitch for a citizen-satisfaction survey. Read More
Taking two years off from his professorial post at Harvard to start up the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government has been a major career highlight for Michael Hiscox. Read More
“It’s not about promoting minorities or creating barriers for minorities," said Canberra-based Liberal policy convenor Ed Cocks on the vote to enact blind recruiting in the Australian Public Service. Read More
This is a slightly edited version of a speech by Martin Parkinson, secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, to the Property Council of Australia… Read More
This week marks National Reconciliation Week (NRW). It commemorates two significant milestones in Australia’s reconciliation journey — the successful 1967 referendum and the High Court… Read More
The federal government’s public service decentralisation program has turned out to be a much less dramatic affair than Nationals leaders suggested last April. Deputy Prime Minister… Read More
