Governance

Outgoing APS commissioner Peter Woolcott discusses his legacy, public service politicisation and his successor’s biggest challenges.

What will lift public service performance at all levels? Levers are useless without fulcrums, says Pia Andrews, and here are her five favourites.

Stephanie Foster has packed up her desk at PM&C to commence a new job with Mike Pezzullo’s Home Affairs leadership team.

Queen Elizabeth II showed that the way we serve is as important as the laws, institutions and conventions we uphold on behalf of our communities.

Data gathered using IoT is helping cities combat crime and reduce pollution in more than 36 cities around the world as part of the Global Smart Cities Alliance.

There are certain skills local government leaders need to succeed in a landscape characterised by needing to do more with less.

A mandate’s importance lies in the discipline it ought to impose on leaders and parties when they present their campaign policies and promises.

When the screens go dark in the office or the power goes off at home, we’re reminded of the unseen critical infrastructure we rely on every day. The APS is also dependent on hidden workforce infrastructure that is easily overlooked but critical to generating workforce capability and delivering organisational performance. The technologies that enable work […]

Public government agencies, departments, and organizations are focused on delivering greater accountability, transparency, and visibility to all constituents. With shifting customer expectations, officials are focused on offering greater self- service functionality to their constituents. The need for greater access to data drives the need for increased governance and compliance and roactive planning and response to […]

The complexity of risks leads to complexity of solutions. Flexibility, variable solutions, and local plans are the way to answers.

A new national advisory council will support the best practice regulation of Australia’s vocational education and training sector.