Auditor-general slams NSW grants program, makes ‘extreme risk’ finding against Treasury Friday February 11, 2022 By Melissa Coade Economy & Industry The NSW office of the auditor-general damns a state government grants program as lacking integrity and consistent guidelines.
Premium Insights and analysis Competent leadership demands integrity when it comes to public service Tuesday January 18, 2022 By Melissa Coade Federal It's not a question of preferring to have politicians who have both integrity and are competent but settling for competence if integrity isn't there. …
Premium The Select Committee The year that was and the year ahead – The Select Committee (part 1) Monday December 13, 2021 By Chris Johnson Federal What was achieved in 2021 and what was lacking on the public service front and/or in politics; what should be priorities for 2022?…
NSW treasury secretary drawn into allegations state budget numbers fudged Tuesday November 9, 2021 By Melissa Coade Culture A former KMPG partner has told a parliamentary inquiry his work for Transport NSW compromised his ethics and he was ‘bullied’ by Michael Pratt.
Premium Columnists The most savage speech from a diplomat ever delivered in the nation’s capital Friday November 5, 2021 By Verona Burgess Defence Public servants have every reason to be sick to the stomach about the fact that they are held to far higher standards of integrity than…
Premium Insights and analysis ICAC exposed unease and frustration in senior public sector ranks Thursday November 4, 2021 By Margot Saville Editors' Picks The NSW ICAC inquiry into Daryl Maguire and Gladys Berejiklian highlights the role of public officials and their relationship to politicians. …
NSW to review grant programs amid candid talk of pork barrelling Thursday November 4, 2021 By Jackson Graham New South Wales The review will be led by the NSW department of premier and cabinet in partnership with productivity commissioner Peter Achterstraat.
Premium Interviews Political advantage meets public interest, or pork barrelling? Wednesday November 3, 2021 By Jackson Graham Federal So-called ‘pork barrelling’ has come into sharp focus in NSW, as Gladys Berejiklian lifts the bonnet on 'throwing money' at political seats in order to…
Throwing money at electorate had both political and public benefit, Berejiklian claims Monday November 1, 2021 By Jackson Graham New South Wales Berejiklian made the comments after the inquiry played phone conversations from three years ago between her and then-boyfriend Daryl Maguire.
Berejiklian told Maguire she would sack public servant over grants program in his electorate Friday October 29, 2021 By Jackson Graham New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian says she might not have been listening or taken seriously a claim by Daryl Maguire that he would make $1.5 million off a…
Premium Insights and analysis No harm in giving away other people’s money, to ‘quote’ Machiavelli Thursday October 28, 2021 By Tom Ravlic Machiavelli may as well have been talking about the way in which the funds of taxpayers have been used by political players in Australia.
Premium Insights and analysis Changes and otherwise in the country’s oldest state government Friday October 15, 2021 By Hugh McClure Editors' Picks The resignations of Berejiklian and Constance highlight a passing of the baton to the next generation of NSW.
Premium Columnists Woe betide a public servant on the wrong side of a sudden pivot Friday October 8, 2021 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks If events of the past week in NSW can remind federal public servants of anything, it should be that circumstances can change in the blink…
Premium Insights and analysis Still much to play out in the vaccine swap deals Thursday October 7, 2021 By Hugh McClure Editors' Picks The swapping of vaccines in December for vaccines in September gave a sugar hit to NSW’s exit from lockdown, but the hit will come crashing…
PM joins ICAC pile on, dismisses federal equivalent Tuesday October 5, 2021 By Melissa Coade Culture Prime minister Scott Morrison has rubbished the notion of a NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) for the commonwealth.
