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What's to be made of an Issues paper from the Public Service Commission, grandly titled "APS reform agenda stage 2 integrity reforms", now out for...
Senior political office is a hazardous place where job security can be fortuitous. A few jump before things sour although the temptations to hang...
As the Department of Home Affairs totters towards its seventh birthday, Mike Pezzullo, a former secretary of the Department, has attempted to provide...
It’s hard to imagine how the government could have made a bigger mess of questions about gender identity and sexual orientation for the 2026 Census....
When the former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, recently claimed that Australia was losing its “strategic autonomy” and turning into “the 51st...
Collecting, sifting and presenting information on national security is not the toughest job in the world although it can be tricky. There are now...
Attempts have been made to tidy things up but too much reliance has been place on administrative measures rather than the solidity of new or amended...
Allan Behm has been about a bit. For 30 years he had important jobs in the federal public service where for a time he was pleased to be head of...
The experience of recent injuries to the pro-integrity culture in the federal public service are rather like sensations, in dream or reality, of...
Primary school students learn in their early days that accountability is a keystone of democracy. Not far into secondary school that reassuring notion...
There's no gainsaying the canniness of the public service Secretaries Board. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading To commemorate...
In the oceanic commentary on the Bruce Lehrmann cases, little attention seems to have been given as to how he actually got into Senator Linda...
In the oceanic commentary on the Bruce Lehrmann cases, little attention seems to have been given as to how he got into Minister Linda Reynolds office...
When elected in May 2022, the ALP government inherited a federal public service that had been debauched for many years, the damage reaching a high...
Under the Morrison and Albanese governments it may well be that the FoI Act has been more restrictively administered than at any time since it came...
A recent Essential Poll published in The Guardian proves yet again that silly questions often get silly answers. One of its question was “Which...
The Albanese ALP (Australian Labor Party) has become a true people’s government in the sense that its timidity restricts it from doing just about...
With the scalp of poor Mr Mike Pezzullo dangling from his belt, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald journalist Michael Bachelard continues to take a...
Well, if the cat is the referral of public servants by the Robodebt Royal Commission for code of conduct investigations now being dealt by the Public...
The politicisation of appointments to statutory offices has been an ugly scab on Commonwealth public administration for a long time. $0/ (min cost...
For the last few Februaries the Director-General of the ASIO, Mr Mike Burgess, has delivered an “annual threat assessment” by way of a speech to...
Gareth Evans ,former Foreign Minister and the former ASIO head, Alan Wrigley, are likely not the only ones to be dubious about the value of much of...
Accountability only works if information about government is readily available. And who doesn’t believe in accountability, at least in theory? ...
On 1 November 2023 the Minister for the Public Service, Senator Gallagher said “in the next stage of reforms” to the public service the government...