The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has agreed to spruce up how it reports the impact of its enforcement of audit rules in response to criticisms from the Australian National Audit Office. An ANAO performance audit of the corporate regulator’s audit enforcement function has branded much of what the regulator
The Defence Delivery Agency announced last week by Defence Minister Richard Marles is very much a blast from the past — it’s the effective re-establishment of the Defence Materiel Organisation disbanded in 2015, albeit this time with an independent head reporting directly to ministers. Having a new top bureaucrat
Australia has opened a precision-strike rocket plant to support the army’s new HIMARS, in a move to reinforce its broader push to build sovereign, US-compatible weapons and maintenance capacity. The Albanese government on Friday announced that Lockheed Martin Australia and Defence will commence production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System
The Victorian Community and Public Sector Union has hailed the release of a heavily tempered response to the Independent Review of the Victorian Public Service as a “major victory”, claiming success in “defending more than two-thirds of the 6,000 positions targeted by the Silver review”. As the Jacinta Allan government
Assistance payments for Australians affected by major storms hitting parts of south-east Queensland and fires across NSW have been made available. In Queensland, personal hardship assistance ($180 for individuals and $900 for a family of five) has been activated for eligible residents of Somerset, Gympie, and the Sunshine Coast. Reimbursement
Early retirement letters have been sent to 68,000 Canadian public servants as part of the government’s efforts to cut bureaucratic headcount. Public servants aged over 50 who took up service prior to 2013 will be eligible for retirement under the plan. Those who took up public service after 2013 will
It’s fair to say the average Australian voter has little faith in the discretionary abilities of those in public office. Even in a country with as strong a democracy as the one we enjoy, political scandals are commonplace, be they matters of poor ministerial behaviour, overt pork-barrelling, or systemic corruption.
Senior ACT public servants will be held responsible for Closing the Gap outcomes, following the passage of legislation this week. The bill passed ACT Legislative Assembly with unanimous support on Wednesday. This makes ACT the first jurisdiction to make a statutory commitment to the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.
While the adoption of cloud created more opportunities for scalability when it comes to delivering high-quality digital services, a degree of complexity comes with the distributed, multi-cloud environments in the form of difficult to transform pre-cloud systems. This means public sector leaders must simultaneous deliver seamless digital services with
Across northern Australia’s iconic, intact natural landscapes, uncomfortable policy tensions are mounting. Climate impacts and environmental degradation across the vast northern pastoral estate are an increasingly urgent problem. At the same time, there is a concerted push for economic diversification — including intensive agriculture and the ...
Christmas is coming, and the goose is not allowed to get fatter. Instead, it is supposed to slim down once it has figured out how to lose 5% of its body weight. Perhaps the Australian Public Service can count this latest “request” from the government as part of the Black
Public Service Minister Katy Gallagher said the new framework for government appointments announced this week was “informed by” a review of public sector board appointments processes conducted by Lynelle Briggs. However, the key review recommendations were not adopted. The new framework is long on rhetoric, with few specific controls, no
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has agreed to spruce up how it reports the impact of its enforcement of audit rules in response to criticisms from the Australian National Audit Office. An ANAO performance audit of the corporate regulator’s audit enforcement function has branded much of what the regulator
The Defence Delivery Agency announced last week by Defence Minister Richard Marles is very much a blast from the past — it’s the effective re-establishment of the Defence Materiel Organisation disbanded in 2015, albeit this time with an independent head reporting directly to ministers. Having a new top bureaucrat
Australia has opened a precision-strike rocket plant to support the army’s new HIMARS, in a move to reinforce its broader push to build sovereign, US-compatible weapons and maintenance capacity. The Albanese government on Friday announced that Lockheed Martin Australia and Defence will commence production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System
The Victorian Community and Public Sector Union has hailed the release of a heavily tempered response to the Independent Review of the Victorian Public Service as a “major victory”, claiming success in “defending more than two-thirds of the 6,000 positions targeted by the Silver review”. As the Jacinta Allan government
Assistance payments for Australians affected by major storms hitting parts of south-east Queensland and fires across NSW have been made available. In Queensland, personal hardship assistance ($180 for individuals and $900 for a family of five) has been activated for eligible residents of Somerset, Gympie, and the Sunshine Coast. Reimbursement
Early retirement letters have been sent to 68,000 Canadian public servants as part of the government’s efforts to cut bureaucratic headcount. Public servants aged over 50 who took up service prior to 2013 will be eligible for retirement under the plan. Those who took up public service after 2013 will
It’s fair to say the average Australian voter has little faith in the discretionary abilities of those in public office. Even in a country with as strong a democracy as the one we enjoy, political scandals are commonplace, be they matters of poor ministerial behaviour, overt pork-barrelling, or systemic corruption.
Senior ACT public servants will be held responsible for Closing the Gap outcomes, following the passage of legislation this week. The bill passed ACT Legislative Assembly with unanimous support on Wednesday. This makes ACT the first jurisdiction to make a statutory commitment to the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.
While the adoption of cloud created more opportunities for scalability when it comes to delivering high-quality digital services, a degree of complexity comes with the distributed, multi-cloud environments in the form of difficult to transform pre-cloud systems. This means public sector leaders must simultaneous deliver seamless digital services with
Across northern Australia’s iconic, intact natural landscapes, uncomfortable policy tensions are mounting. Climate impacts and environmental degradation across the vast northern pastoral estate are an increasingly urgent problem. At the same time, there is a concerted push for economic diversification — including intensive agriculture and the ...
Christmas is coming, and the goose is not allowed to get fatter. Instead, it is supposed to slim down once it has figured out how to lose 5% of its body weight. Perhaps the Australian Public Service can count this latest “request” from the government as part of the Black
Public Service Minister Katy Gallagher said the new framework for government appointments announced this week was “informed by” a review of public sector board appointments processes conducted by Lynelle Briggs. However, the key review recommendations were not adopted. The new framework is long on rhetoric, with few specific controls, no
