The Coalition wants to allow employers to impose short-hour contracts — precisely the cause of the tragic aged care sector scandal.

More than 50 staff from across the Australian Public Service, Victorian Public Service and a number of hospitals and health services have joined the Victorian…

National cabinet will make a decision on easing coronavirus restrictions next Friday, the Prime Minister has said. Following the groups most recent meeting, Scott Morrison…

Restrictions on elective surgeries will be eased after Anzac Day, and the nation's leaders have given in-principle support for the government's COVID-19 tracing app, Scott Morrison…

A public servant in the Department of Health has shared her advice on leadership and best practice in the public service. In a new podcast…

With Australian governments looking at new ways of improving aged care, there is great potential for collaboration with the non-profit sector to make assistive technology…

We pay politicians and public servants to do a job not fob off their responsibilities to royal commissions and the like. Accounts of systemic failures…

The members of the aged care royal commission and their senior counsel assisting began this week’s hearings with personal tributes to the former chair of…

This week, the aged care royal commission looks at diversity in aged care, an issue becoming increasingly relevant to both residents and the staff who…

When so much of a resident’s waking hours is spent either at a meal, or thinking of a meal, the meal can either make or…

Robert Fitzgerald AM has been appointed NSW’s first Ageing and Disability Commissioner, tasked with protecting adults with disability and older people.

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…

In the Australian aged care system, simplifying the complex forms people have to fill out falls to the members of the Aged Care Forms Taskforce;…