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The Thodey report is underwhelming and the government’s response — even more so

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The mega department is back, and with it age-forgotten challenges. Executives must learn to manage division synergies, multiple ministers and diverging agendas

What contribution can an ad hoc inquiry make, anyway? Something to ponder while ‘Waiting for Thodey’

APS State of the Service: a welcome return to a quality report despite some pre-Thodey verbal gymnastics

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The good, the bad, and the ugly ways of explaining oneself in a Senate estimates committee; Wong on song

When you’ve got a case of policy-based evidence rather than evidence-based policy — and other service-delivery challenges

Cans of worms and what the Auditor-General is thinking of digging up next. The hints are there for the taking

Deep links between the private sector and Defence have been to the nation’s benefit. But it’s complicated. The department has expanded its toolbox to manage this ‘revolving door’

Is long-term policymaking dead? Drop the nostalgia and get your hands dirty with detailed dialogue and design. This is the new advisory model of public service

The successful ACT senior secondary colleges have reached an evolutionary crossroads that may lead to their demise. Can they be revitalised – or will they face a ‘gale of creative destruction’?

Without a holistic architecture of service delivery, citizens miss out on coordinated and suitable responses to their particular welfare needs

Doyens of the Canberra bubble gather to hear Prime Minister ScoMo give the APS its orders, while Yarralumla fills with sunshine

You cannot administer government policy and relentlessly criticise it online. Governments, whatever you think of them, have to be able to trust public servants

Auditors take your seats! Old money becomes new money when it’s time to pay out election promises

Richard Bolt on dealing with corruption when it's in your own executive. Why it happens, and what he learned about the duty to protect the agency

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

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