The much-reduced Western Australia public sector has no choice in complying, but for everybody else, there’s just one week left to make a case for keeping

The new Western Australian government is continuing its predecessor’s plan to place local government under the scrutiny of the auditor-general, in line with most other

The Western Australian government has flicked the switch on a major shift to online service delivery, but is keeping its options open by launching only

Ministers all over might think twice before giving public servants a bucketing after Western Australian frontbencher Joe Francis finally settled a defamation case brought by one

The best answer to cyber threats is specific whole-of-government security standards, says Western Australian auditor-general Colin Murphy, and the government’s new chief information officer reckons

Every day across Australia, tens of thousands of people apply for a job, a licence, a loan or a personal background check to determine whether

Last year, Western Australia became the first jurisdiction in the country to establish an evidence-based policing unit to test the assumptions behind traditional police operations

The Western Australian agency Landgate has established a spin-off technology company to profit from a new cloud-based land registry service it developed to replace its

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

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

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

Western Australia’s Auditor General Colin Murphy says agencies are forgetting to undertake employee identity verification and background checks. After auditing 10 agencies in WA for

There’s a stereotype of the Northern Territory as a frontier stuck in the past — populated by crocs, political machinations and indigenous poverty — far