Premium Insights and analysis Machinery of government change management under the spotlight Community & Social Let’s address the elephant in the room. There’s a MOG slog in store for the APS but few government agencies want to talk about it.
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
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
Changing of the guard: a closer look at the PM’s new secretary picks July 12, 2021 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Who are the top federal bureaucrats leading Foreign Affairs and Trade, Social Services and the Attorney-General’s departments? Prime minister Scott Morrison announced his pick for
Premium Insights and analysis Militarisation of the public service continues July 12, 2021 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks Of three new public service commonwealth departmental secretaries appointed in a single week in 2021, two have strong military ties and the third is closely
Three new department secretaries appointed July 9, 2021 By Chris Johnson Federal Scott Morrison has appointed three new secretaries to head Australian Public Service departments. The prime minister has named Kathryn Campbell as Secretary of the Department
COO Committee launches newsletter for public servants April 19, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News The Chief Operating Officers Committee has produced a newsletter in which members of the Australian Public Service can share positive stories of success and useful
Premium Columnists At last, the Australian Public Service at large has discovered what it really means to ‘pivot’ April 9, 2020 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks THE OBSERVER: Designing straight-forward delivery mechanisms is one of the most difficult challenges in public policy. But, says Verona Burgess, senior public servants are feeling
How COVID-19 is driving APS reform April 7, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal The Institute of Public Administration Australia and the Canberra-based communications company contentgroup have produced a new podcast exploring the role of the Australian Public Service
‘The time has come’ for more centralised public service recruitment: Finance deputy secretary October 31, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal The time has come for a shift back to centralised recruitment right across the Australian Public Service, at least for graduates, according to Department of
Premium Expert briefings How to change the world with HR: tips on taking people management to the next level from the new APS head of profession and her corporate-affairs counterparts October 30, 2019 By Stephen Easton Features Jacqui Curtis hit the ground running on her first day as inaugural head of the human resources profession within the Australian Public Service, offering the
APS Review draft: everyone's heard it all before, implementation is the challenge March 21, 2019 By Stephen Easton Career Advice A lot of senior public servants and pundits observe there is not much new in the Australian Public Service Review’s interim report, and chairman David
