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Bungled NZ census highlights need for multiple voting options to raise Maori participation

Culture

New Zealand’s 2018 census was the first to be carried out online, but it captured only 83% of people, a response rate 9% lower than…

Australian Statistician's role up for grabs later this year

By Stephen Easton

Federal

David Kalisch will not be seeking another contract as head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and applications are open for the statutory role. Assistant…

Coach Morrison's pep talk becomes a public spectacle

By Stephen Easton

Federal

Prime Minister Scott Morrison assumed the role of head coach yesterday in a pep talk ostensibly aimed at the Australian Public Service but which doubled…

Federal agencies required to use new legal panel for 'bulk' of legal work

By Shannon Jenkins

Federal

The Attorney General has announced the 62 successful law firms that will make up the first whole-of-government Legal Services Panel. The panel will provide 90%…

WA public service union claims a win and bides its time for the next battle

By Stephen Easton

News

Western Australian public servants have overwhelmingly voted to take what they can get from the McGowan government now and bide their time before taking up…

Mobile shopfronts now serving veterans

By The Mandarin

Federal

The Department of Veterans' Affairs has hitched its wagon to the trucks that take Centrelink, Medicare and Child Support services on the road for those…

Public servant honoured by industry for roles in regulation

By The Mandarin

Communications & Technology

Former public servant Fay Holthuyzen has won the highest honour bestowed by the Communications Alliance, for her work as a senior departmental executive and later…

For the first time in a long time, we're setting up a generation to be worse off than the one before it

By Kate Griffiths & Danielle Wood

Community & Social

We’ve become used to each new generation of Australians enjoying a better standard of living than the one that came before it. Until now. Today’s…

Prime Minister bucks up the troops of the public service in a call to remember the 'quiet Australians'

By Shannon Jenkins

Federal

The bulk of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's first major speech to the Australian Public Service, hosted by the Institute of Public Administration Australia.

Indigenous public servants deal with 'everyday racism' and 'white supremacy' at work: academic prize winner

By Stephen Easton

Culture

The Australian Public Service is not the bastion of "fairness, inclusion, opportunity, respect and racial equality" some of its senior leaders hope or imagine it…

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Disability applicants to the Victorian Public Service graduate program quadrupled this year. Here's how they did it

By David Donaldson

Case studies

The boost followed the creation of a disability pathway in the grad program, as well as an effort by the VPSC to redesign its marketing…

Drones, sensors monitor and react to elderly falls

By Andrew Spence

Communications & Technology

A fall detection system that uses sensors, smartphones and drones to respond to and treat the elderly is being developed by Australian and Iraqi researchers.

South Australian companies lead defence industry innovation boost

By Jim Plouffe

Communications & Technology

Defence industry SMEs from South Australia have won more than $8 million in contracts to provide the Australian Defence Force with a capability edge.

Logged out: farmers in Far North Queensland are being left behind by the digital economy

By Amber Marshall

Economy & Industry

Farming families and communities in Queensland’s remote north are being left behind by the digital economy, putting them at significant social and economic disadvantage.

Australia’s free speech failure, public servants in national debate

By James Mortensen

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Following the High Court’s decision to allow a public servant’s dismissal over tweets criticising the country’s asylum seeker policy, Australia must reconsider the true roles…

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Bungled NZ census highlights need for multiple voting options to raise Maori participation

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Australian Statistician's role up for grabs later this year

Coach Morrison's pep talk becomes a public spectacle

Federal agencies required to use new legal panel for 'bulk' of legal work

WA public service union claims a win and bides its time for the next battle

Mobile shopfronts now serving veterans

Public servant honoured by industry for roles in regulation

For the first time in a long time, we're setting up a generation to be worse off than the one before it

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Prime Minister bucks up the troops of the public service in a call to remember the 'quiet Australians'

Indigenous public servants deal with 'everyday racism' and 'white supremacy' at work: academic prize winner

Disability applicants to the Victorian Public Service graduate program quadrupled this year. Here's how they did it

Drones, sensors monitor and react to elderly falls

South Australian companies lead defence industry innovation boost

Logged out: farmers in Far North Queensland are being left behind by the digital economy

Australia’s free speech failure, public servants in national debate