Premium Insights and analysis Learn to live with uncertainty, and other tips on public sector governance and leadership. Sometimes you have to push back and take a stand for due process, but it’s getting harder Features Governments don’t govern alone. The shared responsibilities of public sector governance fall broadly into two categories – performance and conformance – and a lot of
Partner Content Being ethical means more than following a list of dos and don’ts September 5, 2019 By Vanessa Pigrum Public service is a fraught endeavour. There are no clear solutions to the complex and intractable issues the public sector is tasked with managing. Rising
Eight experts on the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence in government and the public sector September 3, 2019 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner has published a book on the profound social, technological, and ethical issues that are rearing their heads with
Statistics New Zealand calls in experts to advise all public servants on data ethics July 31, 2019 By Stephen Easton New Zealand Agencies of the New Zealand government will take advice on the ethical use of public data from a new expert panel pulled together by Stats
Parkinson: 'I was never actually formally sacked' by Abbott but it sent a 'bad message' all the same July 26, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal Dr Martin Parkinson wants to make it clear for the record that he was never formally sacked as the secretary of the Treasury in 2013,
Premium Insights and analysis Trust makes the world go round. As a business asset, rebuild it with competence, care and 'a little bit of good each day' July 26, 2019 By Bob McMullan & Sean Innis Community & Social The importance of trust was a focus of the recent ANU Crawford Leadership Forum. The forum brought together 200 thinkers and decision-makers from Australia and
Premium Interviews Gill Callister on ethics, female leadership and how to manage a department through a messy public corruption scandal July 1, 2019 By David Donaldson Career Advice Gill Callister is the former secretary of Victoria’s Department of Education and Training. Here she talks to David Donaldson about the perils of an “ethically
Major New Zealand public service overhaul aims for a joined-up, "fleet-footed" government June 27, 2019 By Stephen Easton New Zealand New Zealand’s public service will undergo the “biggest shake-up in 30 years” which will involve replacing its underpinning legislation and, according to Minister for State
No naming and shaming: corruption-resistant councils the goal of IBAC research March 29, 2019 By Stephen Easton News Victoria’s corruption watchdog has released a new instalment in its series of reports on local government, which aims to show council administrators what a good
Was Adam Smith a feminist economist? Care—the essay March 19, 2019 By Nicholas Gruen Community & Social Nicholas Gruen explores ways in which economics marginalises care for others and what an ‘economics of care’ might look like. This fills out part of
Podcast: ethics frameworks should recognise almost nobody is good all the time January 25, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal If you like to think you’re a good person but also have a feeling there’s a personal cost to being 100% ethical all of the
Promoted The new digital ethics: How to survive and prosper in times of unprecedented transformation January 14, 2019 By Darren Menachemson It didn’t make the news in Australia. You almost certainly missed it. The British Government this week announced the expert panel that will run its
Ethics explainer: what is scepticism? October 24, 2018 By The Ethics Centre Career Advice Scepticism is an attitude that treats every claim to truth as up for debate. Religion, philosophy, science, history, psychology – generally, sceptics believe every source
Six and Out? What Australia’s cricket scandal tells us about the six golden rules of integrity March 28, 2018 By Michael Macaulay Editors' Picks Australian cricket’s ball-tampering scandal offers fascinating insights in six key integrity areas: the balance between rules and values; the importance of leadership; psychological safety; organisational