Longer parliamentary terms? More free votes by MPs? Party publication of membership numbers and financial details each year? All proposals for consideration in a new report endorsed by 13 high-profile former public servants and ministers. Read More
Peter Shergold recently gave public servants a rev-up over the need to actually deliver on innovation instead of just talking about it, but there’s a… Read More
Senior public servants fuel cynicism among citizens and staff if their ambitious rhetoric about innovative new approaches does not achieve the promised outcomes, warns government… Read More
As we look to the future and the skills of leaders required to take us there, leaders need to prioritise, say and measure the capabilities of existing frameworks in the public sector. Read More
Alarming new research has revealed the black dog stalking the public services of Australia as their unique professional obligations are afforded less respect than in the past. Read More
Professor Peter Shergold is meeting with governments across Australia in August to test of the pulse of the public sector. Read More
The growing polarisation of our politics in the age of Trump and Brexit forms the premise for a fascinating – and potentially confronting – series… Read More
You’re leaving a senior position in the Australian Public Service and covet a plush seat in the elite company directors’ club. Be careful what you wish for. Read More
Peter Shergold returns to the Centre for Social Impact, the organisation he helped establish in 2008 after retiring as head of the Australian Public Service, as chair of the academic organisation's board. Read More
Peter Shergold speaks to the Sax Institute about his role coordinating refugee resettlement and the elements of successful collaboration. Read More
If the public service were a patient "it would be in palliative care", says Terry Moran. Here's what other secretaries have said about Australia's loss of bureaucratic capacity. Read More
To earn back public trust, perhaps the "policy elite" need to get over themselves. Big government might be back but better solutions may also lie in more participatory, place-based services, co-design with citizens and collaboration with other actors. Read More
As policymakers look back for answers to what worked — like PM&C's $40m for evaluation of Indigenous programs — the pass/fail approach won't, in itself, help find the answers that government will need as circumstances change. Read More
The high turnover of APS secretaries is expected to continue next year, but a ministerial reshuffle could cut short even more top mandarins' careers, writes Verona Burgess. Read More
The New South Wales public service is working to place newly arrived refugees in government jobs that could be vital stepping stones into their new lives, through arrangements set up by resettlement co-ordinator Peter Shergold. Read More
