What your boss gets paid: The APS secretaries’ salaries list APS Secretary Salaries 2022 The Mandarin ranks each APS secretary’s salary by two measures: total remuneration and base salary.
Moriarty says Australia faces most challenging strategic environment since WWII November 4, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Defence The defence secretary and defence forces chief use their 2021-22 Annual Report to describe the global landscape as ‘increasingly complex’.
Increase in complaints to IGADF following Afghanistan Inquiry July 18, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Defence The IGADF Annual Report 2020-21 showed 116 submissions for the year, a jump from the 66 submissions in the previous period.
Premium Columnists How the PM’s promise not to sack public servants is playing out July 8, 2022 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks If you’ve promised not to sack secretaries and one of them digs in, what to do? Find them another spot and hope it can all be smoothed over.
Government focus is on getting the right fit June 23, 2022 By Chris Johnson Editors' Picks There are a number of surprises in the department secretary changes, yet all of the appointments are solid.
Cabinet meeting decisions to seal fate of some secretaries June 21, 2022 By Melissa Coade Community & Social A Tuesday cabinet meeting will confirm who stays and who goes at the top of some government departments.
Australia’s new defence minister flies to Singapore June 10, 2022 By Melissa Coade Defence Richard Marles is in Singapore to meet with regional counterparts from more than 30 nations at the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ 19th Shangri-La Dialogue.
Premium Columnists The APS is sniffing the winds of change April 14, 2022 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks With election 2022 already getting down and dirty, it is vital for the APS to keep its nose perfectly clean.
APS staff from former political adviser roles bring advantages and drawbacks March 2, 2022 By Jackson Graham Federal Both current and former APS commissioners say professionals who’ve worked in politics can enhance the public service.
Defence adviser remembered for integrity and inquisitive mind after swimming accident February 16, 2022 By Jackson Graham Federal Tributes flow for defence adviser and former public servant professor Brendan Sargeant, after he died suddenly in a swimming accident.
Premium Columnists The most savage speech from a diplomat ever delivered in the nation’s capital November 5, 2021 By Verona Burgess Defence Public servants have every reason to be sick to the stomach about the fact that they are held to far higher standards of integrity than politicians.
Good faith gutted: France’s $90 billion bone to pick with Australia November 4, 2021 By Melissa Coade Defence Scott Morrison’s ‘Canberra bubble’ has received a strong rebuke from the French ambassador Jean-Pierre Thebault.
Emails show Defence staff’s offence over ‘damaging’ ban on diversity celebration October 14, 2021 By Jackson Graham Defence A DEFGRAM issued under the direction of Peter Dutton said he would not tolerate discrimination but also would not be ‘pursuing a woke agenda’.
Premium Columnists A (worrying) diplomacy gap at the top of government September 24, 2021 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks With France offside in one blow, as well as swathes of Europe and South-East Asia, not to mention China, we can hardly afford any more diplomatic gaffes.
Defence leaders take responsibility for failings uncovered by Afghanistan Inquiry August 4, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Defence The Department of Defence will undertake a program of reform to address the damning findings made by the inquiry into war crimes committed in Afghanistan.