The Attorney-General is wrong to claim the rights of public servants, ABC journalists and others would be violated by the National Integrity Commission proposed in federal parliament this week, according to its chief architect, Professor AJ Brown. Read More
Last Friday, a group of Canberra public servants pulled on their lycra and set off on bikes to Charlotte’s Pass, deep in the Snowy Mountains,… Read More
The DTA's role is to create a platform for digital transformation, not to promote individual projects. The projects belong to individual departments and agencies, argues Darryl Carlton. Read More
The Liberals are shellshocked and unnerved after the Victorian rout and both the fact and implications of Julia Banks' desertion. Read More
The Department of Human Services has opened a new centre of excellence to work on the next generation of digital assistants to support service delivery. But first, agencies need to provide joined up services across portfolios and different levels of government. Read More
APS review panel member and Coca-Cola Amatil Australia chief Alison Watkins reveals her observations of the public service and dwells on the role of business in contributing to the reform debate. Read More
The federal government has rejected the idea of a powerful federal anti-corruption commission over concerns about the rights of Commonwealth employees and contractors, but is running out of time and space to counter with its own proposal. Read More
Today's average federal public servant is female, 43-year-old, an APS 6 in a service delivery role in Canberra. She's been working for the APS for 11 years and never moved from her starting agency. Read More
Federal agencies put a lot of effort into measuring effectiveness but "rarely develop indicators of efficiency" these days. Read More
Australian Public Service Commissioner Peter Woolcott has unchained his commission staff from the vapid 'streamlined' reports of recent years and let their deep expertise shine with the latest State of the Service Report, tabled today. Read More
We won’t necessarily know beforehand where or when the next crisis will start. But if trouble arises, Australia’s experience demonstrates the old toolkit of responses still works. Read More
“It is an enormous journey — one that will ultimately impact every government department, and every Australian.” So says the federal government’s new Digital… Read More
The new digital strategy promises to cut through a century of federalism gridlock, offering to overhaul a suite of complex multi-jurisdictional life events that could fuel major economy-wide changes across the many domains governments operate in. Read More
Treasury has released a draft of the new procurement policy that aims to stop federal agencies buying goods and services from companies involved in the black economy. Read More
The APS Review has been considering what role evaluation of public programs will have in its findings. Australia’s leading evaluator-general proponent, Dr Nicholas Gruen, on the design and implementation issues that will need to be addressed. Read More
