Public servants can’t stop ministers doling out questionable grants of taxpayer's money, but it’s important that their advice on who deserves the money is strong…

A joint initiative between federal and state public servants to manage threats to the Great Barrier Reef has won the Gold Award in the 2019…

Alison Holland When the minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, recently announced a co-design process for creating an Indigenous “voice to government”, it was characterised…

We pay politicians and public servants to do a job not fob off their responsibilities to royal commissions and the like. Accounts of systemic failures…

NDIA CEO Martin Hoffman will take home an additional fixed loading of $166,260 per year until November 2022, on top of his $554,220 salary. …

"I am not an anti-union Trump supporter," declared National Disability Insurance Agency chief executive Martin Hoffman last night, after his past social media use came…

The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science has released a set of “aspirational” and entirely voluntary ethics principles for Australian businesses that use artificial intelligence.

The Community & Public Sector Union undertakes the largest survey of working women in Australia — the What Women Want survey. The survey is now…

Labor and the union representing Australia's national science agency have ramped up their opposition to staffing caps, while the agency has appeared before the Fair…

The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that as of June, about 1.6m Australians in total worked for organs of state and territory governments, about 242,000…

The Secretaries Equality and Diversity Council has announced updates to its 2019 strategies.

Having a media-handling strategy is dangerous, according to Jeremy Hirschhorn, the second commissioner for client engagement at the Australian Taxation Office. He said strategic media…