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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…

International Women's Day: Marise Payne says female leaders make the world more peaceful

By The Mandarin

Australian Capital Territory

For International Women’s Day, Senator Marise Payne spoke to a packed Great Hall at Parliament House this week on women in public sector leadership, drawing…

Human Services a template for domestic violence support: Marise Payne

By Stephen Easton

Community & Social

Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne has challenged all Australian Public Service bosses to put in place support for staff experiencing domestic violence, using the…

Frances Adamson: space diplomacy is now 'core business' for Australia

By Frances Adamson

Communications & Technology

The head of DFAT gives a diplomatic perspective on the recent establishment of the Australian Space Agency while addressing the UN, including the future of…

China's double standards: Frances Adamson on the other side of the trade war story

By Stephen Easton

Features

Australian diplomats continue to strongly advocate free trade and multilateral diplomacy in response to Donald Trump’s revival of protectionism and the ensuing threat of trade…

Frances Adamson on Australia's plan to ride out Donald Trump's trade war with China

By Stephen Easton

Federal

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Frances Adamson briefed business leaders yesterday as the trade war between the United States and China heats up,…

Leadership: life is messy, sometimes you won't have a bloody clue, so be courageous

By Stephen Easton

Editors' Picks

Anne Sherry is one of Australia's most successful women in leadership. Throughout a successful career spanning the public sector, banking and the cruise ship industry,…

Food, climate change and national security

By Frances Adamson

Features

Climate change and food security are two inextricable issues for the modern international community, and Australians can add help resolve them through world-class research and…

Turnbull's new brooms: Woolcott and Mathieson are no apparatchiks

By Verona Burgess

Editors' Picks

Both well-regarded, with only short stints in ministerial offices, the recent appointments of Peter Woolcott and Clive Mathieson show Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull still trusts in…

Podcast: Frances Adamson, unscripted

By The Mandarin

Editors' Picks

Who hasn't wanted to throw an unanswerable question at a top diplomat just to test the skill set they're most famous for.

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

By Verona Burgess

Career Matters

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…

What really bothers your secretary

By Harley Dennett

Features

Public service chiefs answer what is their greatest leadership challenge, and how to build a coalition for change.

Why do 98% of APS stay in the same organisation? Secretaries want to find out

By Harley Dennett

Features

Why move organisations? Australian Public Service senior leaders offered their reasons.

Julie Bishop's days of allowing men to take credit for women's ideas are over

By Harley Dennett

People & Capability

Julie Bishop and Frances Adamson reveal male colleagues still steal their thunder — in cabinet and the secretaries board. They urge women to stand up…

Earning public trust: Sir John Key goes back to Westminster basics

By Stephen Easton

Features

Sir John Key says public servants and ministers alike need to respect Westminster traditions -- leaks weaken "the bonds of trust and respect" between the…