Don Russell

Would a Shorten Labor government bring another night of the long knives? Verona Burgess thinks some executives could be seen as turn-coats, but wiser heads might prevail.

Dr Don Russell is now perhaps Australia’s most eligible bureaucrat, following his dismissal by South Australia’s new government on Wednesday.

DPC boss Don Russell and three others have been terminated by South Australia’s new government.

If the public service were a patient “it would be in palliative care”, says Terry Moran. Here’s what other secretaries have said about Australia’s loss of bureaucratic capacity.

Dodgy recruiters cutting corners will put your agency’s reputation at risk, especially if candidate references aren’t thoroughly checked. The Mandarin associate publisher James Judge’s tips for finding the answers you need.

Kym Winter-Dewhirst has bowed out from the top public service job in SA for family reasons, with former Keating adviser Dr Don Russell taking over.

The mishandling of the metadata issue and the release of a new report on the failures of the NBN reveal deep weakness in government digital capacity.