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Indigenous Affairs’ latest shakeup brings in a former military chief

By Harley Dennett

Community & Social

A shakeup inside Australia's federal Indigenous Affairs bureaucracy will see its top official, Andrew Tongue, replaced with the recently retired Vice Chief of the Defence…

New PM&C staff struggled with conflict of interest after policy mergers

By David Donaldson

Community & Social

The PM's department can walk and chew gum, but conflicting new roles put merged staff in the position of either critiquing their own work or…

Working with PMO and central agencies like 'being loved by a 900-pound gorilla'

By David Donaldson

Editors' Picks

Andrew Tongue knows a thing or two about working at the centre of governments. The PM&C associate secretary explains the right and wrong ways to…

Indigenous bureaucrats could foster self-determination

By Stephen Easton

Features

First Australians can overcome the tyranny of the majority and wrest back self-determination, leaders argue. When armed with facts and fire in the belly, Pat…

Andrew Tongue: if I knew then what I know now ...

By Andrew Tongue

Features

When the pressure is on to drive tough reform and it looks like the wheels are about to fall off, hold your nerve and "beware…