Young people remain ill-equipped to participate in Australian democracy Australian Capital Territory The latest figures show the previous survey's results were no mere aberration and that student performance in civics and citizenship has remained low.
Opinion: As Trump exits the White House, he leaves Trumpism behind in Australia Monday January 18, 2021 By Mark Kenny Australian Capital Territory Through recent natural disasters, global upheavals and a pandemic, Australia’s political centre has largely held. Australians may have disagreed at times, but they have also…
Lotterywest CIO joins WA government Friday January 15, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Health The Western Australian government has appointed Christian Rasmussen as chief information officer of the state health system’s shared service centre, Health Support Services.
Premium Insights and analysis For public servants, the future of the national cabinet means adapting to centralised power and engineering accountability Monday December 7, 2020 By Chris Woods Australian Capital Territory The establishment of the national cabinet as first a crisis, and ultimately permanent, body has presented the most radical change to Australia's intergovernmental cooperation structures…
What can be learnt from Australia’s electoral system Friday December 4, 2020 By Pavitra Raja Australian Capital Territory The Australian electoral system works. Even Former US President Barack Obama is a fan. Here are four things that other nations can learn from it.
Premium Columnists Quarantine constitutionally a commonwealth power and responsibility Thursday December 3, 2020 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks One of the mysteries of Australia’s pandemic response is why states and territories were sucked in to taking responsibility for quarantine, writes Stephen Bartos.
WA sets net zero emissions target for government agencies Tuesday December 1, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment Under the policy, state government agencies — including government trading enterprises — will be required to develop and implement plans to transition toward net zero…
Premium Insights and analysis NSW, Queensland and Victoria remake sector relations with renewable energy zones Monday November 30, 2020 By Chris Woods Australian Capital Territory Recently, the NSW, Queensland and Victorian governments each pushed the development of renewable energy zones as part of their post-COVID economic roadmaps. We explore how…
Premium Columnists Do consultants help avoid public sector politicisation? Thursday November 19, 2020 By Helena Cain Australian Capital Territory As a senior public servant, your politician strongly suggests that you drive an obviously political initiative – that may or may not go against your…
WA government launches revised policy to break down language barriers in the public sector Wednesday November 11, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Community & Social The state government noted that more than 17% of Western Australians speak a language other than English. Of those, more than 14% do not speak…
Ex WA Country Health Service worker slapped with fraud charges Monday November 2, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News The former Western Australian public servant has been charged after he allegedly used false information to receive nearly $14,000 in paid leave.
Public probe into WA Department of Communities to impact public confidence Monday November 2, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News The Western Australian corruption watchdog will this week hold public examinations into whether ex senior bureaucrat Paul Whyte 'misappropriated' several millions of dollars for direct…
Service NSW expands contact tracing technology to taxi industry Friday October 30, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology Plus, the Western Australian government has opened its first ServiceWA centre, which will cover more than 80 transactional services.
Ex public servant Paul Whyte’s $4.26m properties confiscated Friday October 23, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News The former Department of Communities assistant director general pleaded guilty to 530 corruption charges in June after it was alleged he had stolen more than…
WA department at centre of corruption scandal faces potential job cuts Tuesday October 13, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Economy & Industry The department is attempting to rectify alleged overspending, which the union blamed on the former assistant director general failures.
