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Gina Cass-Gottlieb wants to see the government use competition policy reform to supercharge the evolution of Australia’s economy.

The HSRA will advise the government on the planning and construction of a high-speed rail network along Australia’s east coast.

ABC managing director David Anderson defended several of his staff and the ABC chair at a spillover session of senate estimates on Tuesday.

Rod Sims, former chair of Australia’s competition watchdog, has taken off his public servant hat to pick up opera glasses. 

Former Paralympian Kurt Fearnley has been named chair of the National Disability Insurance Agency.

Denis Napthine’s resignation follows the departure of CEO Martin Hoffman, who finished up at the agency on 2 July.

A ‘national resting place’ and custodian for Indigenous ancestral remains, which will also house the Australian Institute of Aboriginal  and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), is to be built in Canberra.

The new National Disability Insurance Agency board has loads of corporate governance and financial management nous. Founding chair and “father of the NDIS” Bruce Bonyhady is out, but had some final advice for the minister.

A roundup of announcements, appointments, resignations and machinery-of-government changes in the Western Australian public sector that have taken place around the turn of the financial year.