Jackie Trad

A number of senior public servants in the Queensland Department of Education failed to behave ethically by involving a politician in a recruitment process and spreading misleading information, the CCC has found.

The Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission is assessing corruption allegations regarding the state government’s debt recovery agency following an internal probe.

A senior bureaucrat from the Queensland Public Service has been stood aside, according to Department of Education director-general Tony Cook.

The Queensland government has put a one-off $1250 bonus on the table in pay negotiations with public sector workers but is holding firm on its policy to limit pay rises to 2.5% per year.

The Productivity Commission’s new commissioner, Romlie Mokak, said in a speech at Old Parliament House that “NAIDOC’s impact must surely go well beyond a single week in July” as he discussed the new whole-of-government Indigenous Evaluation Strategy he is developing to analyse any federal policy or program in terms of how it affects Indigenous Australians.

The Queensland government wants to know what “the public sector of tomorrow” will look like and has asked Peter Coaldrake, who ran the Goss government’s

A powerful accountability watchdog will oversee the long process of rebuilding Queensland Rail from the ground up, after senior leaders lost control of the organisation. Last year’s #railfail stemmed from organisational paralysis that was brewing for years.