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Chris Moraitis departs secretary role to lead Office of the Special Investigator

By Shannon Jenkins

Careers

The new secretary of the Attorney-General's Department has not been announced.

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COVID ate-it: Public servants front a tough fortnight at Senate Estimates

By Matthew Elmas

Features

As scandals circle the public service and the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts business as usual, Senate Estimates has aired some tough questions.

The Coalition’s favourite think tank wants AGD secretary Chris Moraitis stood down

By Stephen Easton

Federal

Right-wing activists from the Institute of Public Affairs claim Attorney-General’s Department staff are running a “covert political operation” against conservatives and demand secretary Chris Moraitis…

Achievement unlocked: PM gives two federal department heads another go

By Stephen Easton

Federal

Department of Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo and Attorney-General’s Department secretary Chris Moraitis have been reappointed to their respective roles. “I congratulate them both and…

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The APS needs to radically and quickly overhaul what 'service delivery' means to them. That should start with genuinely listening to their front-line people

By Verona Burgess

Career Advice

Much of the APS needs to lose the attitude that policy is the apex of public administration and service delivery is done by lesser mortals,…

Phil Gaetjens promoted to head of PM&C, Dr Steven Kennedy to lead Treasury

By Stephen Easton

Federal

Treasury secretary Phil Gaetjens will lead the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from September, and be replaced by the secretary of the Department…

Re-elected Prime Minister's public message to department heads

By Stephen Easton

Federal

Prime Minister Scott Morrison brought department heads out in front of the media cameras on Thursday and told them not to get in the way…

Beware the axe: stability is good, but loyalty is better for some incoming ministers

By Verona Burgess

Career Advice

Would a Shorten Labor government bring another night of the long knives? Verona Burgess thinks some executives could be seen as turn-coats, but wiser heads…

Border Force chief Roman Quaedvlieg’s future decided 'in weeks'

By Michelle Grattan

News

Now the Quaedvlieg matter has become so difficult that it has been handed to Attorney-General Christian Porter to make the call on his future. Questions have been…

Moraitis on the change imperative: navigating the challenge of organisational change

By The Mandarin

Career Advice

The Commonwealth's departmental heads have been increasingly drawn to the transformation of the Australian Public Service: what it should be, where it should go, and…

Gillian Triggs to headline Power to Persuade symposium after AHRC term expires

By The Mandarin

News

Many will be eager to hear Gillian Triggs' side of the controversial efforts by the then-Abbott government to delegitimise both her and the commission following…

Meet the six candidates for DFAT’s top job

By Michael Sainsbury

Foreign Affairs & Immigration

Giving the top job to a former spy chief would upset a lot of Australia's neighbours, but it's a distinct possibility. All six have previous…

Keane: after years of decline, who'll rescue the public service?

By Bernard Keane

Features

OPINION: A former Canberra SES gives a stinging assessment of a "toxic mix of incompetence and politicisation" in the federal public service. Is it…

Two departments, two decisions on releasing 'blue books'

By Stephen Easton

Culture

Some public servants need little encouragement to fight FOI tooth and nail — but should they? Two departments handled the release of their "blue books"…

Reshaping government legal services in the public interest

By Gabrielle Appleby

Features

How to best provide legal services to the public sector is a question being struggled with by governments everywhere. In determining structural questions such as…