Premium Insights and analysis Introducing ‘The politicisation of the public service’ series Tuesday October 5, 2021 By Bernard Keane Australian Capital Territory The politicisation of the APS and state-level bureaucracies is a crucial part of the endemic state of soft corruption that now characterises contemporary politics.
Premium Columnists Is the public service ready for a new era of big, interventionist government? Monday May 24, 2021 By Bernard Keane Editors' Picks Outsourcing has resulted in a learned helplessness that has come back to bite the government in the backside on the vaccine rollout and in aged…
Premium Insights and analysis No country for old people: summarising the royal commission’s report into Australia’s aged care system Friday March 5, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Community & Social A bill or charter of rights to ensure the aged are protected irrespective of what corporates or government entities think of them looks distant and…
Government to appoint senior restraint practitioner to Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Tuesday March 2, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Federal Among the recommendations are for the Aged Care Act 1997 to be replaced, and for an independent office of the Inspector-General of Aged Care to…
Royal commission lawyers call for independent aged care regulator as part of system overhaul Friday October 23, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Community & Social Senior counsels Peter Gray and Peter Rozen on Thursday submitted 124 recommendations to the royal commission.
Aged care royal commission members pay tribute to former chair Justice Richard Tracey Wednesday October 16, 2019 By Stephen Easton Community & Social The members of the aged care royal commission and their senior counsel assisting began this week’s hearings with personal tributes to the former chair of…
The Centre for Strategy and Governance shares its views (succinctly and politely) on the APS Review Wednesday April 24, 2019 By Verona Burgess Features What do former mandarins think about the Australian Public Service Review so far? Quite a lot, and not all of it is flattering.
