Just as Australians were ringing in the new year and the public campaign against Centrelink’s massively scaled-up debt recovery program was beginning to pick up steam,

Yesterday’s New South Wales budget allocates $2.9 million to create a new commissioning team inside Treasury, $17 million to help the government’s data analytics centre

The Queensland government has pledged not to let its public sector workforce grow any faster than the state’s population, in what Treasurer Curtis Pitt described

Tasmanian Opposition leader Bryan Breen has trained his crosshairs on Coordinator-General John Perry, arguing the new agency has been a pointless addition to the bureaucracy

The Western Australian government is asking 54 agencies to cut back on spending in the hope of stretching declining state revenue as far as it

Treasurer Scott Morrison’s sales pitch for the federal budget is already in trouble. Monday’s Fairfax Ipsos poll showed around half of Australians disapproved of the

Federal public servants can now stay in the Public Sector Superannuation Accumulation Plan after they leave Commonwealth employment. The budget papers say the change will

The federal government has brought forward its budget to May 3. The decision was not shared with Cabinet colleagues — never mind Treasury — until the

It went so far over budget, it was almost criminal. The Western Australian Department of Health’s massively over-budget IT project won’t be investigated by the

Flush with funds from the longest housing boom in a generation and the nation’s most buoyant economy, the NSW government has fast forwarded $591 million

The ACT Government plans to create almost 300 new full-time public service jobs in the next financial year as it spends up big on IT

The blunt instrument of public sector savings that is the federal government’s efficiency dividend will drop back to a base rate of 1%, but not