Premium Insights and analysis Former APS leaders on setting goals for success in 2021 Monday January 18, 2021 By Matthew Elmas Career Advice There are no shortage of theories about the best ways to plan for success. The Mandarin spoke with former department of human services secretary Renée…
Premium Insights and analysis Stewards of democracy: Public servants are Australia’s vanguard against cronyism in turbulent times Wednesday November 18, 2020 By Matthew Elmas Features Two weeks after the US election the world’s model liberal democracy still isn’t sure who its new leader is, and as a contested transition of…
Opinion: technology is crucial to safely powering our economic recovery Thursday August 13, 2020 By Mike Mrdak Communications & Technology In 2020, the South Korean government exercised its right to access personal mobile phone data — consequently flattening Korea's curve quickly, efficiently and without having…
Promoted How to build effective leadership in times of crisis Tuesday April 7, 2020 By Noetic Group Sponsored The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis unlike anything we have experienced before. Our professional and personal lives are very different to how they were just…
Interview series: How to build effective leadership in times of crisis Tuesday April 7, 2020 By Noetic Group Resource library The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis unlike anything we have experienced before. Our professional and personal lives are very different to how they were just…
Out of the blue: PM shows the Secretaries Board who’s boss Friday December 6, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Federal Just last week the Australian Public Service Commissioner Peter Woolcott said the Secretaries Board had been busy advising Scott Morrison on his response to the…
Four departments and five secretaries cut while one returns, as PM reshapes the public service Thursday December 5, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal Prime Minister Scott Morrison has unveiled a massive Australian Public Service shake-up, which will see five secretaries out of their jobs, after a morning of…
How to deliver great policy advice Thursday December 5, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Federal Leaders from across the public sector, the private sector, and academia have come together to discuss the ins and outs of delivering great policy advice.
Multiple APS secretaries tipped to get the sack in Morrison’s massive MoG changes Thursday December 5, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal Prime Minister Scott Morrison plans a major restructure of the Australian Public Service, which may see multiple secretaries lose their jobs, according to news reports…
Premium Columnists 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 Friday August 2, 2019 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 Thursday July 25, 2019 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…
Towards a professional approach to public policy: reforming people instead of structure and process Wednesday June 26, 2019 By Stephen Easton Career Advice The importance of thinking about how implementation is going to work when designing policy is well recognised but remains a challenge, said Sir Chris Wormald…
Re-elected Prime Minister's public message to department heads Thursday May 23, 2019 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…
Mike Mrdak: public servants must ditch the business jargon, stop being scared of citizens Wednesday May 8, 2019 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology Government agencies need to be more open, honest and direct with the public, come to terms with social media and realise that working with people…
ABC searches high and low but finds the right managing director already in the office Monday May 6, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal A “national and international search that produced many impressive candidates” has only served to convince the ABC board it already had the perfect managing director…
