Premium Columnists Election 2022: Add seven new secretaries and a couple of senior agency heads? Friday May 20, 2022 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks Let’s assume, for the sake of discussing machinery of government, that the mood for change translates to a major overhaul of the suite of portfolios.
Premium Insights and analysis Election 2022: Historically speaking, public service heads always roll when a government changes Thursday May 19, 2022 By Chris Johnson Editors' Picks The Mandarin takes a look at how each side of politics has acted towards senior public servants when the government changes hands.
Premium Columnists Election 2022: Public sector might have a new manufacturing mission Tuesday May 17, 2022 By Peter Strong Economy & Industry A larger manufacturing base is needed to maintain our sovereignty and grow our economy, productivity, and standard of living.
Premium Insights and analysis Election 2022: Red and Blue books that really aren’t Monday May 16, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks Where do the 'Red' and 'Blue' labels come from? I asked several former senior public servants, on condition of anonymity. None of them knew. …
Election 2022: Labor costings to be released next week — Gallagher Thursday May 12, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Federal Gallagher said costings for all of Labor policies put forward during the campaign would be released in line with past-election timings.
Premium Insights and analysis Election 2022: Red Book, Blue Book considerations for Treasury and Finance Monday May 9, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks Australians have already got some idea of what key factors need to be common to both the Red and Blue books.
Premium Insights and analysis Red Book, Blue Book — the importance of incoming government briefs Tuesday May 3, 2022 By Ian McPhedran Editors' Picks The first priority of a red or blue book is to win the trust of the minister, for without trust there can be no frank…
Election 2022: Labor will cut $3b from APS consultant spend and hire more staff Friday April 29, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Federal Katy Gallagher said the Coalition government has cut more than 12,000 public service jobs prior to the pandemic.
Premium Insights and analysis Charter of Budget Honesty and PEFO essential for election transparency Thursday April 21, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks Arguably the best thing Peter Costello did as federal treasurer was the Charter of Budget Honesty. It keeps on delivering value for good governance and…
Election 2022: Expenditure considerations for the public service Thursday April 14, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks There may be heads that a new administration decides need to roll in order to get its full agenda implemented properly.
Premium Columnists It’s an election budget, but who is tuning in? Tuesday March 29, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks How many voters in traditional heartlands and marginal seats are not in the mood to listen to either party, irrespective of their sales pitches?…
Premium Insights and analysis Challenge for public service will be in budget details Thursday March 24, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Economy & Industry What budget promises are made can be hard to track. It will be left to the public service to pick up the trail once the…
What to do when fatigue sets into your agency during times of crisis Tuesday March 15, 2022 By Melissa Coade Communications & Technology Finding opportunities to innovate as a service provider during a pandemic has been a taxing experience for everybody, but leading through uncertain times is what…
Debelle’s move from RBA to private sector has climate change implications Friday March 11, 2022 By Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer Editors' Picks Guy Debelle’s departure from the RBA for Andrew Forrest’s green hydrogen play isn’t exactly the kind of subtle, indirect signal that we’re used to from…
RBA deputy leaves public service for Twiggy’s Fortescue Friday March 11, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Federal Guy Debelle, the Reserve Bank of Australia's deputy governor, is jumping from the public service into the private sector. …