The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that as of June, about 1.6m Australians in total worked for organs of state and territory governments, about 242,000…

Having a media-handling strategy is dangerous, according to Jeremy Hirschhorn, the second commissioner for client engagement at the Australian Taxation Office. He said strategic media…

Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Frances Adamson delivers the 2019 Stan Kelly Lecture.

The Australian Taxation Office will make it easier and simpler for small business owners to access compensation for defective administration, after a review by former…

A review into the national regulator for the vocational education and training sector has begun following a push from private-sector VET companies.

Reducing working hours will only promote those ends if accompanied by deeper social and cultural changes. Much family life, for example, involves doing things that…

The panel led by David Thodey and charged with reviewing financial relations between New South Wales and the Commonwealth has released its first discussion paper.

Tax commissioner Chris Jordan is sticking to his guns after being accused of abusing parliamentary privilege in Senate estimates by using the high-profile hearings to…

The Victorian government’s decision to put the brakes on pay rises and agency budgets is “inexplicable” after the state’s impressive economic performance in recent years,…

The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission will be reviewed following an administration hiccup and mounting pressure from mining lobby groups. Planning and Public Spaces…

The Indigenous Procurement Strategy, released this week, has been developed in response to a recommendation from the Commonwealth government’s Indigenous Procurement Policy, and will be…

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face. While governments debate the future of coal-burning power stations, carbon dioxide continues to be released…

Public servants engaging the machinery of government to handle service delivery should follow clear processes just as they do when outsourcing services, according to the…