"Administrative fashion" is influencing the spread of the one stop shop model, argues an ANZSOG review paper. Although service integration can be a public good,…

The PM has appointed his own chief of staff to the prized job of secretary of the Department of Defence.

Victoria's new Aboriginal employment strategy will aim for culturally safe workplaces while strengthening the leadership pipeline.

To produce good policy public servants should engage diverse communities and ensure decision makers have enough time to examine the data, urges NZ's specialist policy…

Australia ranks third in the world for the overall effectiveness of its national public service but the APS is the world leader in public sector…

The Treasury head role with the Western world's most envied surplus will go to the state's Customer Service Commissioner, continuing the trend of taxing bank…

It's not just flashy crims that anti-fraud investigators are watching. The risk of the trusted insider — officials rationalising bad behaviour by a self-assessment of…

50 years on from the referendum that made Indigenous affairs a Commonwealth concern, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet's new deputy secretary, Professor…

A local government performance benchmarking program is helping over 100 councils pinpoint challenges and measure progress in everything from spans of control to budget processes.

The independence of parliament is being undermined by executive control over budgeting, and even performance requirements. Victoria, the most extreme example, treats parliament as a…

No, it's not propaganda, and yes, it is a critical government profession that enhances and saves lives. Britain's top government communicator has a message for…

The federal government's Cabinet handbook has been updated, providing guidance for public servants, staffers and ministers alike on everything from who's allowed in the room…

Australia leads the world in providing government datasets that are useful and easy to find, according to the 2016 Global Open Data Index provisional rankings.