The NIAA's first Indigenous leader, Jody Broun, wants to see change in this country so that Aboriginal people can meet their full potential.

AEC’s social media team knows it faces a test providing real-time advice in the lead-up to the 2022 federal election.

An election year is a year of new possibilities for the public sector. Join The Mandarin’s managing editor Chris Johnson in conversation with one of Australia’s most forward thinking economists Dr Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute. The pair will discuss Richard’s new book Big: The role of the state in the modern economy and […]

A constitutional law expert says parts of the proposed religious discrimination bill raise no controversy while others have far-reaching consequences. 

The OECD has recorded literally hundreds of governments and NGOs worldwide dedicated to nudging and other behavioural interventions.

As a society we have come to define ‘hybrid work’ as simply having the flexibility to work between our home and the office. But, the problem with this definition is that it’s narrow. Unnecessarily so. In reality we have always been hybrid workers. Consider this. Sometimes you might work from your laptop, sometimes you might work from the whiteboard. #hybridwork Sometimes […]

Join us as we chat with the Commissioner of the APS Mr Peter Woolcott AO, about the 2021 State of the Service Report, launching this month. What would you like to ask Peter?

Booster vaccination shots against COVID-19 have already begun for some people at high risk from the virus.

In the deaf community, when public information comes to hand about the coronavirus, it’s often literally through the hands and expressions of Linda Warby. 

Social procurement policies in reactive settings — like the COVID pandemic — must be approached differently to ones for planned policy environments. 

A draft framework introduced in NSW aims for architectural co-design on environment projects that have Aboriginal connections to Country at heart.

The Australian Public Service workforce is growing bigger but the pandemic has led to the the most temporary jobs being in the mix since at least 2002.

Christian Porter's disclosure about his blind trust is a bit like the torch that partially illuminates a space: it invites just as many questions as it answers.

The COVID-19 crisis gives us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build back better. Recovery is not a given. It all depends on policy choices.

Insights for the public sector on Australia’s COVID-19 response. The Mandarin‘s Melissa Coade will be joined by Jane Halton AO, Chair of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, co-chair of the COVAX initiative, and former secretary of the Australian Department of Health, and Bill Bowtell AO, former Labor political advisor and strategic health policy consultant. […]