My Health Record: Medics speak up

Prescription for change.

15 August, 2016

Coonan takes helm of Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority

Former Howard government minister to replace Les Wielenga.

22 June, 2015

Abbott names Moriarty new Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

Keenan scores new ministry, but agency structures stay in place.

25 May, 2015

So why scrap Census if costs were dropping?

The price of starving the Australian Bureau of Statistics of tech funds finally bites back

19 February, 2015

State of the Service points to more APS upheaval

“Finding useful productivity measures in the public sector . . . has proved problematic.”

2 December, 2014

New APS chief Thawley offers $5000 prizes, lunch with John Howard, for thought leadership

Think tank scholarships for public servants to Washington DC too.

28 November, 2014

Australian Public Service Commissioner Stephen Sedgwick to go

Announcement of replacement from Abbott still pending.

21 November, 2014

Reforms primed to accelerate under new APS chief Thawley

Echoes of Max-the-Axe as Howard’s former adviser returns

3 November, 2014

Ian Watt makes graceful departure as Public Service chief

Abbott pays tribute to 30-year contribution.

3 November, 2014

Outsourcing push reveals Health and DHS split

Cross-agency confusion on welfare infrastructure

11 August, 2014

High Court school chaplains decision set to choke council money from Canberra

It may not have come as a surprise, but the Williams case MkII decision is exactly the legal nightmare local governments have unsuccessfully been fighting to avoid for years.

19 June, 2014

Total APS job cuts too difficult to predict for Public Service Commission

By Julian Bajkowski The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has released its annual stocktake of the federal bureaucracy with the grim warning that it is now “difficult to predict” how the cumulative impact of successive rounds of job cuts under both the Coalition and Labor will hit staff numbers. Tabled in Parliament on Monday afternoon, […]

2 December, 2013

CPSU warns Commission of Audit against further job cuts

By Julian Bajkowski The union representing federal public servants has cautioned the Abbott government against instigating a Queensland-style “slash and burn” program of cuts through its National Commission of Audit announced this week. Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) National Secretary, Nadine Flood, said that although the new government “clearly has a mandate to conduct […]

24 October, 2013

Local Government dropped from federal ministry list

By Julian Bajkowski The federal ministry of Local Government could be the first of many administrative casualties in Canberra after the function conspicuously failed to appear in the publication of Prime Minister elect Tony Abbott’s first Ministry list. In a document that provides a partial window into how the bureaucracy and machinery of government of […]

16 September, 2013