Australian public service

The government is restoring the workplace rights lost by other APS agencies but ATO staff need the government to restore our pay levels.

The Ethic Centre’s Dr Tim Dean on the risks and responsibilities of disclosing a romantic relationship with an office colleague.

Inter-agency poaching has increasingly challenged the ANAO to hold on to its ranks of specialist staff, says Grant Hehir.

Improving how the government engages its contractor support workforce by focusing on program outcomes will drive better value for taxpayers and enable suppliers to deliver high impact results, people capability and workforce solutions advisory service, Connect3i, says. Connect3i director, James Hall, says the way the government engages its contractor support can be improved immeasurably and this can drive tangible benefits for both departments and industry. “All engagements must be better designed to deliver the outcomes government needs in a manner that generates better value for the taxpayer and enables suppliers to deliver high impact and innovative solutions that government desperately […]

The government’s approach to APS bargaining is an ideological shift that has influenced the form, content, and outcomes of bargaining.

Michael Brennan shares some insights on his storied public service career on his way out as PC chair and back into the private sector.

When aviation engineers call time on procedures, you know there’s a problem. Sometimes you have to accept physics beats spreadsheets.

Katy Gallagher has used the official opening of a ‘Spirit of the Service’ exhibit to share some of her high-level ambitions for the APSC.