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
Band 2 An anonymous mandarin has been promoted to Band 2 at the Office of National Intelligence. Band 1 The next assistant director-general for the Australian Submarine Agency’s program costing is Timothy Lam. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has promoted Sarah Calautti to senior executive lawyer. David Pezzanite is now
The Parliamentary Workplace Support Service has assured its users that confidential information is kept in-house, following an email gaffe revealed during Senate estimates. Senator Jane Hume asked PWSS executives whether people could be assured that their private information would not leak into a broader digital ecosystem, after her office’s receipt
This week’s run of estimates hearings is the final intense activity for the federal parliament in 2025, with politicians and bureaucrats now able to prepare for the festive season. It won’t be long, however, before bureaucrats are called back to get pricked, prodded and probed before estimates hearings again. Prime
A widely publicised plan to cut 2,000 Victorian public service jobs under Premier Jacinta Allan has been scaled back to about half that number. A major efficiency review will instead target roles at the edges of the bureaucracy to find $4 billion in savings. Around 1,000 VPS positions are slated
Locals sometimes get so used to the scenery that they forget to marvel at the sights. This isn’t just true for people who live in beautiful holiday spots. The same tendency can hamper analysts focused on international affairs. It’s easy, for example, to see the Indo-Pacific as a scatter of
The Tax Practitioners Board has confirmed that two of the three PwC Australia staffers cautioned in relation to the tax leaks saga remain employed by the firm. A TPB response to Australian Greens Senator Barbara Pocock’s question on notice says two recipients of a caution remain in the firm’s tax
Department of Treasury officials were unable to tell Senate estimates whether consumer groups were consulted as part of the development of a merged body that will set accounting, auditing and sustainability rules. A consultation process on the establishment of External Reporting Australia ended last week — a body that will
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
Band 2 An anonymous mandarin has been promoted to Band 2 at the Office of National Intelligence. Band 1 The next assistant director-general for the Australian Submarine Agency’s program costing is Timothy Lam. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has promoted Sarah Calautti to senior executive lawyer. David Pezzanite is now
The Parliamentary Workplace Support Service has assured its users that confidential information is kept in-house, following an email gaffe revealed during Senate estimates. Senator Jane Hume asked PWSS executives whether people could be assured that their private information would not leak into a broader digital ecosystem, after her office’s receipt
This week’s run of estimates hearings is the final intense activity for the federal parliament in 2025, with politicians and bureaucrats now able to prepare for the festive season. It won’t be long, however, before bureaucrats are called back to get pricked, prodded and probed before estimates hearings again. Prime
A widely publicised plan to cut 2,000 Victorian public service jobs under Premier Jacinta Allan has been scaled back to about half that number. A major efficiency review will instead target roles at the edges of the bureaucracy to find $4 billion in savings. Around 1,000 VPS positions are slated
Locals sometimes get so used to the scenery that they forget to marvel at the sights. This isn’t just true for people who live in beautiful holiday spots. The same tendency can hamper analysts focused on international affairs. It’s easy, for example, to see the Indo-Pacific as a scatter of
The Tax Practitioners Board has confirmed that two of the three PwC Australia staffers cautioned in relation to the tax leaks saga remain employed by the firm. A TPB response to Australian Greens Senator Barbara Pocock’s question on notice says two recipients of a caution remain in the firm’s tax
Department of Treasury officials were unable to tell Senate estimates whether consumer groups were consulted as part of the development of a merged body that will set accounting, auditing and sustainability rules. A consultation process on the establishment of External Reporting Australia ended last week — a body that will
