Premium Insights and analysis Wider and deeper: the growth of politicisation Tuesday October 5, 2021 By Bernard Keane Federal The Coalition in government simply cut the APS out of the policy process altogether by handing ever more work to consulting firms.
Premium Columnists A (worrying) diplomacy gap at the top of government Friday September 24, 2021 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks With France offside in one blow, as well as swathes of Europe and South-East Asia, not to mention China, we can hardly afford any more…
Intelligence expert to take cabinet secretary position Thursday August 8, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Federal A top national security and foreign affairs adviser has been named the next cabinet secretary, bumping up the number of vacancies in Australian…
Public servants hastily polish up the blue books as new Morrison ministry takes shape Wednesday May 22, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal A who's-who of the members in contention for Coalition ministerial positions in the days after the 2019 federal election.
View from The Hill: NSW result gives federal Liberals a boost in the mind games Monday March 25, 2019 By Michelle Grattan New South Wales The Liberals would delude themselves if they took too much heart from NSW. But at a psychological level it will lift the spirits of their…
'Urgent': former secretaries assess public service capability Monday February 12, 2018 By David Donaldson Editors' Picks If the public service were a patient "it would be in palliative care", says Terry Moran. Here's what other secretaries have said about Australia's loss…
Defiant NSW electoral commission rejects senator's complaints Friday April 1, 2016 By Stephen Easton News The NSW Electoral Commission doesn't shy away from public disputes. It took on critics of its iVote system and it won't be cowed by a…
