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Mary Ann O’Loughlin: how I fell in love with policy-making, and figured out what works and the evil problems that don’t

By Martin Stewart-Weeks

Editors' Picks

Mary Ann O’Loughlin landed in one of Australia’s most purple phases of creative policy-making and promptly fell in love with it. Young, curious, engaged and…

CSIRO responds to ‘disingenuous’ news story

By Shannon Jenkins

Economy & Industry

Australia’s science agency has hit back at a recent article published in The Australian that claimed departments and agencies engaged in contracts with Chinese government…

Performance pay doesn’t work in the APS, according to a former secretary

By Shannon Jenkins

News

Former secretary Allan Hawke has called for the end of performance pay in the Australian Public Service. He argues that the system clashes with public…

Lessons from the Hawke and Howard years of Australian governance

By Nicholas Gruen

Features

In politics, you sign up to a struggle on behalf of those you claim to represent. You owe them everything you can manage to stitch…

Labor declares 'great respect' for ASIO and ASIS after Paul Keating calls for a clean-out

By Stephen Easton

Federal

Former prime minister Paul Keating does, and he sparked a kerfuffle last night by saying senior foreign intelligence and domestic security officers should be turfed…

Turnbull, Keating team up to rejuvenate the birthplace of Australia's bureaucracy

By Harley Dennett

New South Wales

Lucy Turnbull, former Sydney lord mayor, and Paul Keating, former prime minister, will work together to develop a long-term vision for the historic Macquarie Street…

Upmarket agitprop: Clive James on John Howard on Bob Menzies

By Nicholas Gruen

Features

Nicholas Gruen reviews a book review by Clive James and ponders the decline of serious debate. He says James joined the culture wars and attacked…

Gareth Evans: public servants had it best under us

By The Mandarin

News

Were the Labor years of Hawke and Keating good for the public service? That's been in dispute, with a senior minister of the time insisting…

Tingle: Australia's legacy of public service wisdom gutted by politicians

By The Mandarin

Economy & Industry

Australia's devaluing of the public service is not just about politicisation — bright young recruits have lost access to the experience of their elders, writes…

Karaoke strategy: Paul Keating on APEC

By David Donaldson

Features

The APEC leaders' forum is one of the key foreign policy legacies of the Keating era. The former PM recounts the manoeuvring that got the…