Outback councils always do it tough, but is freezing local democracy the answer? New South Wales The New South Wales government will not allow residents of the vast but sparsely populated Central Darling Shire to elect a council until 2023 at
Barnett moves to put WA councils under auditor-general's watch August 26, 2016 By Stephen Easton News Western Australian councils can expect closer and more public oversight of their finances and performance in future with the state government finally moving to bring
National digital identity framework prototype only weeks away August 9, 2016 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology The Digital Transformation Office will release details of how it plans to build a national proof-of-identity system that doesn’t require an exchange of much personal
How the ACT government will be carbon neutral by 2020 August 25, 2014 By The Mandarin News The ACT government has released a detailed plan for its own operations to be carbon neutral by 2020. Simon Corbell. Environment
Give states more power, more revenue: former top bureaucrat August 20, 2014 By David Donaldson News The Commonwealth should butt out of state-based service delivery, according to former senior Canberra bureaucrat Vince FitzGerald. The GST should be hiked and states assigned a
Gary Banks: reshaping government, the way forward August 5, 2014 By Gary Banks Features The global financial crisis, its origins in deficient market regulation and housing subsidisation, and its aftermath of fiscal deficits and sluggish growth, have led many
Partnerships for public good: social benefit bonds in NSW July 15, 2014 By David Donaldson Features Social benefit bonds — public-private partnerships that incentivise community improvement — are coming. But they will need to become cheaper and easier to develop to catch on. SBBs,
Moran: public servants, states need more autonomy June 17, 2014 By David Donaldson News Public servants need to be given more freedom to innovate. That was the key message from a speech on public sector innovation given by Terry
