Premium Insights and analysis Departmental media staff have an important job to do, but have been muzzled. Inside the public service, information spinners have stopped. Here’s how it happened Engagement Public affairs teams can range from a single person to massive teams of people. Their work and experience in government is very different to most
When former bureaucrats speak out: insight and resentment March 10, 2016 By Jason Whittaker News It seems former bureaucrats can’t win when they critique their old workplaces: critics cry hypocrisy while former colleagues feel slighted. Australia’s former top statistician risked both
PR 'stuff-up': Michael Pezzullo defense falls flat, allegedly March 9, 2016 By Jason Whittaker News Critics of the federal government’s asylum seeker policy had plenty to work with in a statement from the departmental secretary defending detention operations. But the
