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 […]

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?

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.

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. […]

How Australia’s political leadership had slipped back into its pattern of appearing to fix things or ‘dilly dallying around’ is a mystery to the former top mandarin.

It was a day to discover, learn about and master the art of meaningful communication strategies. Great communication won’t make a poor policy good, but poor communication can guarantee that policy doesn’t deliver. Add to that, the third decade of the 21st century is bringing a perfect storm of issues that will make it harder […]

It was a day to discover, learn about and master the art of meaningful communication strategies. Great communication won’t make a poor policy good, but poor communication can guarantee that policy doesn’t deliver. Add to that, the third decade of the 21st century is bringing a perfect storm of issues that will make it harder […]

Working out which powers can be relinquished is the first step agencies can make towards Aboriginal self-determination, says Rueben Berg.

Even the flexible work advocates at VEOHRC worried about providing frontline services remotely during lockdown — and were surprised at how well it worked.

'The more women who come through, the easier it gets, the better it is, the more women have the ability to be themselves, to feel these gender prisons less', says the former PM.

In times of peril, citizens typically turn to their leaders and governing institutions for support. The 2019–20 bushfires and the coronavirus pandemic have seen more Australians relying on governments for assistance and action to ensure their core human needs, such as safety and security, continue to be met. A new survey conducted by PwC Australia […]