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…

While news stories about the budget focused most heavily on infrastructure, the biggest topic on social media was health.

The Commonwealth public sector workforce shrank over the past year in net terms, despite the last budget suggesting it would grow slightly.

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…

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…

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…

“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…

Malcolm Turnbull’s “Innovation boom” might be a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean innovation has vanished from the budget entirely.

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…

The federal government will commit a further $67.2 million in this year's budget to the digital identity application, myGovID.