If 2024 was the year of elections, it follows that 2025 has been the year of MoGs. New governments often have new ideas about public administration and rearrange things accordingly. But this year, a number of reelected governments have executed significant machinery of government changes (MoGs). The ACT and Western
Season’s greetings, mandarins! Today, we’re swapping mince pies for multiple choice. Our festive pop quiz dives into the fun and surprises of the public sector’s antics in 2025. Enjoy a little year’s-end challenge, and see how well you knew the machinations of your public service colleagues during this past year.
With the shock waves rolling across our outraged nation, the blame game is everywhere, and the hate media are venting aplenty. Grief is loud, grief is messy, it is angry, sad, regretful and painful. Grief is an outpouring of passion and agony, and it has already caught too many Australians
This year ended in tragedy, with the appalling Bondi shootings on December 14. They will cast a shadow over the Australian government in 2026. The government faces the challenge of responding decisively and vigorously to combat domestic terrorism and antisemitism without overreaching and harming civil rights. Public service advice to help
The average delay for a Defence project has been calculated at around two years, or 404 months in total. That’s according to the latest Australian National Audit Office’s annual Major Projects Report on the Department of Defence, which shows just eight of 21 projects have been assessed as running on
Band 2 Defence Housing Australia has promoted Lisa Barlin to chief operating officer, and Shane West to executive general manager of property. Jennifer Stace is now first assistant secretary for domestic aviation and reform at the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts. Band 1 Hayley Petrie
The prime minister has described antisemitism as an evil tearing at the fabric of Australia, days after a terrorist massacre targeting the Jewish community at Bondi Beach, expressing shared shock and anger with the public and a determination to do more. On Thursday, Anthony Albanese stood alongside antisemitism envoy Jillian
The federal government’s National AI Plan is a solid exercise in domestic housekeeping. Released this month, it avoids the twin traps of breathless AI hype and paralysing caution. No grand claims about superintelligence, and no billion-dollar moonshots. Instead, it focuses on the basics: safer use of AI across the economy
The end of the year is a time for reflection. Actually, strike that. For many of us, this is not really true. Instead, the end of the year is a time of busyness. Rather than reflecting, we sprint frantically to another annual finish line. Once finished, we take a brief
Secure, weather-resistant and frugally comfortable housing is so pivotal to well-being that governments should be marshalling all the tools at their disposal to ease the contemporary shortage. Before exploring the five major classes of tools, let’s first examine why some are routinely disregarded. Two blind spots The preference of the
Tania Rishniw has stepped from the frying pan into the fire by becoming acting secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, replacing Natalie James. Rishniw takes on the task not long after dealing with the controversy that embroiled both the DEWR and accounting behemoth, Deloitte, following the use
Josh Frydenberg has demanded the federal government establish a royal commission to investigate the rise of anti-Semitism in Australia and the circumstances leading up to a fatal attack on a Jewish community gathering over the weekend. Speaking at a vigil in Sydney, three days after a violent mass-shooting which killed 15 and
If 2024 was the year of elections, it follows that 2025 has been the year of MoGs. New governments often have new ideas about public administration and rearrange things accordingly. But this year, a number of reelected governments have executed significant machinery of government changes (MoGs). The ACT and Western
Season’s greetings, mandarins! Today, we’re swapping mince pies for multiple choice. Our festive pop quiz dives into the fun and surprises of the public sector’s antics in 2025. Enjoy a little year’s-end challenge, and see how well you knew the machinations of your public service colleagues during this past year.
With the shock waves rolling across our outraged nation, the blame game is everywhere, and the hate media are venting aplenty. Grief is loud, grief is messy, it is angry, sad, regretful and painful. Grief is an outpouring of passion and agony, and it has already caught too many Australians
This year ended in tragedy, with the appalling Bondi shootings on December 14. They will cast a shadow over the Australian government in 2026. The government faces the challenge of responding decisively and vigorously to combat domestic terrorism and antisemitism without overreaching and harming civil rights. Public service advice to help
The average delay for a Defence project has been calculated at around two years, or 404 months in total. That’s according to the latest Australian National Audit Office’s annual Major Projects Report on the Department of Defence, which shows just eight of 21 projects have been assessed as running on
Band 2 Defence Housing Australia has promoted Lisa Barlin to chief operating officer, and Shane West to executive general manager of property. Jennifer Stace is now first assistant secretary for domestic aviation and reform at the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts. Band 1 Hayley Petrie
The prime minister has described antisemitism as an evil tearing at the fabric of Australia, days after a terrorist massacre targeting the Jewish community at Bondi Beach, expressing shared shock and anger with the public and a determination to do more. On Thursday, Anthony Albanese stood alongside antisemitism envoy Jillian
The federal government’s National AI Plan is a solid exercise in domestic housekeeping. Released this month, it avoids the twin traps of breathless AI hype and paralysing caution. No grand claims about superintelligence, and no billion-dollar moonshots. Instead, it focuses on the basics: safer use of AI across the economy
The end of the year is a time for reflection. Actually, strike that. For many of us, this is not really true. Instead, the end of the year is a time of busyness. Rather than reflecting, we sprint frantically to another annual finish line. Once finished, we take a brief
Secure, weather-resistant and frugally comfortable housing is so pivotal to well-being that governments should be marshalling all the tools at their disposal to ease the contemporary shortage. Before exploring the five major classes of tools, let’s first examine why some are routinely disregarded. Two blind spots The preference of the
Tania Rishniw has stepped from the frying pan into the fire by becoming acting secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, replacing Natalie James. Rishniw takes on the task not long after dealing with the controversy that embroiled both the DEWR and accounting behemoth, Deloitte, following the use
Josh Frydenberg has demanded the federal government establish a royal commission to investigate the rise of anti-Semitism in Australia and the circumstances leading up to a fatal attack on a Jewish community gathering over the weekend. Speaking at a vigil in Sydney, three days after a violent mass-shooting which killed 15 and
