The Australian Taxation Office’s decisions on compensation for small business victims of “defective administration” are under review by a former head of the Attorney-General’s Department. Read More
There is ongoing concern that certain mental health services are struggling to survive after their funding was shifted to the NDIS, despite being designed to serve a wider group than the 64,000 people with psychosocial disabilities thought to be eligible. Read More
Under pressure in Senate estimates on Friday, Murray-Darling Basin Authority chief executive Phillip Glyde maintained the recent South Australian royal commission failed to prove its… Read More
Government is making life worse for Indigenous people, argues Marcia Langton -- but progress is possible. Read More
New commonwealth executive promotions as well as government board appointments and the first NT Treaty Commissioner. Read More
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority says the recent South Australian royal commission produced some “useful analysis and insights” and notes a few “areas of agreement” in its formal response, but argues it would be too risky for governments to follow the inquiry’s main recommendations. Read More
Water provides many examples of how politics can get in the way of good policy, and how Australia’s federal system sometimes supports and sometimes derails bipartisan solutions. Read More
Some targets seem easier to meet than others, while some are just plain unreliable. Here are four things we've learnt from the last decade of Closing the Gap policy. Read More
Today’s overhaul of private sector whistleblower protections provides a glimmer of hope for the strong, bipartisan integrity reforms Australia needs… if and when we are prepared to lift our sights. Read More
It’s now clear that an Australian Border Force officer neglected to send an email that could have prevented Hakeem Al-Araibi being arrested and locked up… Read More
Public servants don’t need to read too deeply between the lines to get the message that the opposition is watching for signs of politicisation in… Read More
Senate estimates has been decidedly calmer since the departure of Public Sector Commissioner and Labor bugbear John Lloyd. Read More
For many of us, this hack seems to have come out of the blue. But cyber measures targeting Australian government infrastructure are the 'new normal'. Read More
ANZSOG and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust are sponsoring two new Churchill Fellowships this year for Australian and New Zealand Indigenous public servants. Read More
They are highly effective at exposing wrongdoing, but do they influence policy development? A two-stage approach might be more effective, write Dr Peter Wilkins and Professor John Phillimore. Read More
