Kerry Kennedy — who died recently in Canberra aged 69 — was a quiet champion of excellence in public administration, a committed family man and a fine baritone. 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
Infrastructure Australia finds a new chief executive, a well-known public servant takes charge of technology at Veterans' Affairs, and New Zealand's latest Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary needs no introduction in Canberra. Read More
The Commonwealth is getting its first new style guide since 2002, courtesy of the Digital Transformation Agency, but not until the end of 2019. Also, a tale of digitally transformating the staff experience at one of the Commonwealth's largest departments. Read More
The new secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Elizabeth Cosson, has spent some of her first few months in the job putting out fires by apologising to aggrieved veterans and promising to deliver fairer outcomes in future. 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
Simon Lewis, the departing Commonwealth secretary who had six ministers in five years, says don't blame ministerial staffers for not knowing their role. Read More
The secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, Simon Lewis, has handed in his resignation and Elizabeth Cosson has been chosen to step into the role. Read More
Ethics, as it applies to any research involving humans, cannot be ignored by public servants running policy and program evaluations. But if the slow process of going through an ethics committee can be avoided, perhaps it should be. Read More
Acting information commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has a message for government's chief executives and lawyers looking to cut corners with Australians' privacy and information rights. Don't think you can "game the system" because of OAIC's uncertain future. It has a mandate, powers, and an appetite to use them. Read More
Do federal bureaucrats have the industrial firepower to force the Abbott government to soften its strict enterprise bargaining policy? Whether the measures workers can take will have any impact at all has been questioned, and stronger actions could backfire in the court of public opinion. Read More
Standard Business Reporting cut red tape for businesses, now medical practitioners are asking benefits agencies to offer the same in their medical forms. The time GPs spend on bureaucracy could instead be spent providing essential medical care, and agencies could get a boost in the efficiency of their programs. Read More
Union members at the Department of Veterans' Affairs have voted resoundingly to take industrial action rather than accept the best deal their bosses are allowed to offer. Read More
As soon as it became necessary to use myGov to file online tax returns this year, Australians began signing up to the single-login portal for government services in droves. Read More
