Coalition plans $1.5bn APS budget cuts, promises to spare a few agencies Economy & Industry A re-elected Morrison government would aim to extract $1.5 billion from departmental budgets over four years, "building to $5 billion over the medium term" to…
The 2019 Budget provides opportunity for innovation through data sharing Monday April 29, 2019 By Tahnya Donaghy Features How can the budget process provide an opportunity to genuinely disrupt the way the public sector performs? By quarantining a proportion of funds within all…
How did citizens react to the budget? Thursday April 4, 2019 By David Donaldson Federal While news stories about the budget focused most heavily on infrastructure, the biggest topic on social media was health.
Union budget response: public sector austerity holding back everyone's wages Thursday April 4, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal The Commonwealth public sector workforce shrank over the past year in net terms, despite the last budget suggesting it would grow slightly.
Federal Budget 2019: where are the new APS jobs? Tuesday April 2, 2019 By The Mandarin Economy & Industry The government has broadly kept to the restrained growth of the public sector seen in the budgets of recent years, but the Nationals leadership thinks…
Federal Budget 2019: shared services and productivity Tuesday April 2, 2019 By Stephen Easton Economy & Industry The Australian Public Service is expected to save $17.3 million every year from 2019-20 onwards through shared corporate services, according to the budget, on top…
Federal Budget 2019: incoming APS workforce strategy to 'have regard' to APS Review Tuesday April 2, 2019 By Stephen Easton Economy & Industry A new whole-of-government workforce strategy under development by the Australian Public Service Commission and the Department of Jobs and Small Business will be finished by…
Federal Budget 2019: a boring chapter in the ‘APS modernisation’ story Tuesday April 2, 2019 By Stephen Easton Economy & Industry “A professional and connected public sector, delivering results for all Australians.” This is Public Service Minister Mathias Cormann’s one-line narrative for the Commonwealth bureaucracy in…
Federal Budget 2019: funding ‘Innovation’, at least in name Tuesday April 2, 2019 By The Mandarin Federal Malcolm Turnbull’s “Innovation boom” might be a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean innovation has vanished from the budget entirely.
Federal Budget 2019: Coalition promises funding boost for finance regulators Monday March 25, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will both get significant funding increases this year to “restore trust” in the…
Federal Budget 2019: digital identity pilots funded to test welfare, business applications Tuesday March 19, 2019 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology The federal government will commit a further $67.2 million in this year's budget to the digital identity application, myGovID.
