Victorian Public Service chief Chris Eccles contemplates how government can win back citizens' trust in his keynote address at Public Sector Week.

A push to increase female representation in executive ranks at Victoria's DPC is paying off as the gender ratio nears parity. It's the responsibility of…

With responsibilities for equality, women’s affairs and Aboriginal affairs, Victoria's Department of Premier and Cabinet is "unconventional" in its structure, explains secretary Chris Eccles. It's…

INTERVIEW: Chris Eccles is perhaps the only public servant to have headed up three chief minister's departments. The surfing secretary discusses his career start…

Corruption investigations into Victoria's Education Department have put complacency to the sword, says the state's most senior public servant, Chris Eccles.

Public service newbies should seek out broad experience and build a culture of collaboration. Vic DPC secretary Chris Eccles and VPS commissioner Belinda Clark advise…

Secretaries weigh in: bureaucrats have to be more visible. In a world rife with spin, public service leaders are increasingly seeing the value in providing…

SPEECH: Victoria's top public servant finds lessons for the future in one of our greatest public policy achievements. Success starts with a moral purpose…

Unlike the Commonwealth, Victoria has no framework for consistently calculating the costs and benefits of MoG changes. This must be addressed, says a parliamentary report.

SPEECH: There's a "moral duty" to reform public services to tackle family violence, Victoria's top bureaucrat says. Government needs buy-in from a range of…

Victoria will create an independent family violence agency, as recommended by the Royal Commission into Family Violence. Silos have obstructed responses in the past, advocates…

Would keeping time sheets strengthen the often woolly numbers on how much individual programs cost? Victoria's Treasury head argues it would be counterproductive. Plus, why…

PART TWO: Admitting mistakes and better consulting not only leads to happier citizens but better outcomes, DELWP secretary Adam Fennessy tells The Mandarin. Plus…

The UK is anonymising job applications to tackle the problem of candidates with ethnic-sounding names getting fewer callbacks. So why is Victoria's top public servant…