Government focus is on getting the right fit Editors' Picks Anthony Albanese’s federal government has focussed on the job it needed to focus on and has made the decisions that needed to be made –
The Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honours List COVID-19 Honour Roll June 12, 2022 By The Mandarin Australian Capital Territory A special COVID-19 Honour Roll recognises individuals within the wider honours list for their contribution, service or achievement relating to COVID-19. They are as follows.
Top doc gets top honour in Queen’s Birthday List June 12, 2022 By Anna Macdonald and Tom Ravlic Australian Capital Territory Commonwealth Department of Health secretary Dr Brendan Murphy has been appointed companion of the order of Australia (AC) in the Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honours List.
Premium Columnists Election 2022: Add seven new secretaries and a couple of senior agency heads? May 20, 2022 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks One more sleep to go. Or perhaps more, given the high number of pre-poll votes, the narrowing opinion polls and no certainty as to how
Election 2022: Federal department refers advertising material to AEC May 19, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Federal The federal Department of Health has referred advertising material to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) over the use of the department’s Health Funding Facts web
Premium Columnists Election 2022: To rebuild APS capacity, some at the very top will likely go April 28, 2022 By Bernard Keane Editors' Picks In the event of a Labor win in May, we’re unlikely to see exactly what it means for the Australian Public Service for quite some
Boosters brought forward, Queensland flings border open December 13, 2021 By Jackson Graham Health Australia’s vaccinations advisory group has brought forward by a month its recommended date for people to get a third COVID-19 vaccination dose. ATAGI is now
Brendan Murphy reflects on leadership and the public service changes to outlive COVID-19 October 25, 2021 By Jackson Graham Health Department of Health secretary Brendan Murphy says risk-taking and fast-tracked decision-making should outlive the pandemic in the Australian Public Service. Murphy gave a wide-ranging talk
Premium Insights and analysis Australia would do well to swap more than Pfizer doses with Singapore September 8, 2021 By Hugh McClure Australian Capital Territory Announcing Australia’s Pfizer swap deal with Singapore last week, prime minister Scott Morrison described the agreement as providing ‘500,000 more doses of hope’ to Australia’s
PM’s letter to Frewen shines light on thinking behind Vaccine Taskforce September 1, 2021 By Melissa Coade Defence Top Army brass Lt Gen John Frewen was promised by the prime minister ‘direct operational control’ of all government resources relevant to the rollout of
National cabinet assigns COVID hospital system review to working group August 30, 2021 By Melissa Coade Federal The commonwealth secretary of health, Brendan Murphy, will report back to the National Cabinet on the work of a new cross jurisdictional working group to
Premium Columnists Machiavelli meets Sun Tzu: the knives are out, and they cut all sorts of ways July 16, 2021 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks There are a few more audits in the pipeline that might cause shivers up public service spines, writes Verona Burgess. What a difference seven months
PSsst! Shivering in their boots July 15, 2021 By The Mandarin Federal Flying the coop CASA, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, is taking flight to new premises — but not just yet. CASA headquarters having passed its use-by
PSsst! Dropping the A bomb July 1, 2021 By The Mandarin Australian Capital Territory READ: “I dunno” Officials in the health department are still reeling after Scott Morrison dropped his confusing late-night AstraZeneca bomb this week. Following a national
