The slow wage growth that has become the norm across the economy is also evident in the public sector, with most governments choosing to put a hard ceiling on pay rises and risk the inevitable industrial disputes this approach tends to cause. Read More
Dr Geoff Edwards discusses balancing economic, social and environmental outcomes of the Murray-Darling river. Read More
South Australia has never conducted a whole-of-government public sector employee survey before. The new premier's early approach to public servants may have led to an unexpected set of results. 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
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
An OECD body is working on a declaration that would see signatories commit to public sector innovation, and help cement a better common understanding of what it actually means. Read More
The MDBA’s five current members have resolved to rally around chief executive Phillip Glyde and continue denying the extremely serious findings of the SA royal commission, while they prepare a more comprehensive official response. Read More
PSMs are gaining traction with a group of Australian public sector workers having just formed a workers’ co-op to keep doing the same job, under contract from the government. Read More
Public servants are in the firing line of a caustic final report from the South Australian royal commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, which found the federal agency at the centre of the agreement has acted unlawfully, on “dubious” advice from the Australian Government Solicitor. Read More
First Nations have been largely left out of water management in the Murray-Darling Basin, the royal commission into the management of the river system has found. Read More
'The MDBA doth protest too much, methinks,' writes Commissioner Bret Walker in a rebuke that drew upon the works of George Orwell and William Shakespeare to describe how bureaucrats twisted the language of transparency. Read More
South Australia has won the bidding war to host the Australian Space Agency's headquarters on the site of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital. Read More
It sounds ominous -- a minister asking for a list of public servants seconded to the last minister's office before a change of government -- but it was all just a big misunderstanding, according to South Australian frontbencher David Speirs, whose office caused a mild stir in his department. Read More
South Australia's Marshall government is sold on the benefits of digital identity credentials and will either start accepting the federal government's myGovID in the future, or build its own similar version. Read More
