States and territories implement measures for latest gathering restrictions Federal The federal government’s new restriction on gatherings has come into effect, with states and territories taking different approaches to enforce it. A limit of two
COVID-19: Tas to close borders, Vic boosts health sector March 19, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Queensland Tasmania will close its borders, the Queensland government is granting its chief health officer stronger powers, and the Victorian government is boosting its health system
Twenty days’ special pandemic leave for Queensland’s public servants March 19, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News Public servants in Queensland who refuse to go to work for fear of contracting coronavirus risk suspension, according to a new government directive. The directive
Premium Case studies How values-based leadership can help fix our broken political system March 13, 2020 By Chloë Spackman Australian Capital Territory Values-based leadership is the way to cut through personality politics and have political insiders start fixing their own system by repairing Australia’s future-making system, writes
Premium Interviews ‘The talent flooding out of the public service should concern us all’: Glyn Davis on institutional memory loss, staff caps, and other challenges to public service March 11, 2020 By Martin Stewart-Weeks Australian Capital Territory THE BIG INTERVIEW: ‘Accidental public servant’ Glyn Davis is a distinguished professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy. Davis talks to
A city-by-city guide to how water supplies fared in Australia’s summer of extremes March 9, 2020 By Ian Wright & Jason Reynolds Australian Capital Territory Australia has just experienced a summer of environmental extremes. Water has played a key role. This includes prolonged drought, dry soil and bushland contributing to
‘Manels’ only tell half the story. Here’s how all of us can fight for women speakers March 6, 2020 By Juliana Chan Australian Capital Territory When Dr Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), called for an end to all-male speaking panels at conferences, he was surprised
Premium Case studies How to be a truly terrible leader: What Caligula, Julius Caesar, and the bad Roman emperors can teach us March 5, 2020 By Josiah Osgood Australian Capital Territory The Roman biographer Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus believed power doesn’t corrupt so much as it allows one’s worst, preexisting instincts to go unchecked. His epic biography, Lives of
After a summer of extremes, here’s what to expect this autumn March 4, 2020 By Catherine Ganter Australian Capital Territory The past Australian summer was a season of two contrasting halves. So did the midsummer weather change make a dent in the drought, and is
Global Intelligence Briefing March 3, 2020: Coronavirus management March 3, 2020 By Chris Woods Australian Capital Territory The COVID-19 coronavirus has created an unprecedented challenge for Australian departments across all portfolios, and determining what governments have done well — and not so
Premium Trends and research Australia’s first Social Progress Index ranks states by human needs, wellbeing and opportunity February 28, 2020 By Chris Woods Australian Capital Territory A social progress index is not a new idea but a UNSW Centre for Social Impact team led by Dr Megan Weier has developed and
IPAA Queensland explores influence, impact, and reconciliation February 27, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News Public servants from state, local and federal governments have come together to discuss the need to focus on reconciliation and reframe relationships in the public
Queensland government to ‘beef up compliance’ for its largest infrastructure project February 27, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News The Queensland government has sacked some of the board members overseeing its largest infrastructure project and has appointed a compliance unit in an attempt to
Corruption watchdog proposes 10-year sentence for public servants who misuse information February 25, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News Queensland’s corruption watchdog has called for tougher penalties for public servants who misuse confidential information, following nine public hearings conducted in November. In a new
