Second PS Act amendment bill puts serious APS reform on the agenda

The good news from Katy Gallagher’s second progress report on APS reform presented at ANU last week is that there will be a second Public Service Act Amendment Bill in the new year containing much more substantive reform than the disappointing Bill before the parliament at the moment.

There should be real comfort in her concluding words that she had been listening to ‘calls for faster change and a focus on permanently enshrining more reform elements in a legislative reform package’, and that she always reads these opinion pieces and listens to these voices with respect.