Ian Anderson

The role of deputy secretary for social policy at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is being offered on a non-ongoing basis, six months after the sudden departure of Lin Hatfield-Dodds. Interviews will be held on October 4 and the successful candidate will be offered the job initially for no more than 18 […]

“The notion that we just bolt on evaluation at the back end, or close to the back end of a program, I’m hoping that those days might be passed,” said Romlie Mokak, discussing the project he now leads at a NAIDOC Week event in Canberra.

The Productivity Commission has begun development of an evaluation strategy for the whole of the Australian Public Service and any policy or program affecting the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

In a fitting tribute, the building where Indigenous affairs policy is developed was renamed Charles Perkins House last week, in honour of the celebrated anti-discrimination campaigner and former Department of Aboriginal Affairs secretary.

It is only through sharing data and changing the culture around data usage that we can uncover new insights and put data to good use, says Professor Ian Anderson, Deputy Secretary for Indigenous Affairs at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Anderson tackles some of these issues and calls for a way forward in his address to Breaking the Data Silos.

University of Melbourne professor Ian Anderson, the deputy secretary for Indigenous policy in the Prime Minister’s department, delivers the 2017 Menzies Oration.

Public servants wear the White Ribbon at events around the country. The head of the APS thinks it is “delusional” to suggest this is not a workplace issue.

50 years on from the referendum that made Indigenous affairs a Commonwealth concern, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s new deputy secretary, Professor Ian Anderson, sets out a clear and comprehensive vision of a better way forward.