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APS tech recruitment failure casts $21 billion-long shadow workforce

Australian Capital Territory

The vast majority of a ‘secret’ and ‘shadow’ 54,000 APS headcount is simply IT contractors not willing to become actual public servants.

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Will the dead hand of procurement kill digital reform in Canberra yet again?

By Julian Bajkowski

Communications & Technology

Nothing delivers a licence to swiftly dismantle the structures of your predecessors like a killer audit that fails their signature policies.

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Department secretaries in the spotlight — whether by accident or design

By Verona Burgess

Defence

How are senior public servants are expected by convention to behave? There have been a few colourful and charismatic secretaries, writes Verona Burgess.

‘Public servants are doing political work, staffers are doing policy work’

By David Donaldson

Features

Cost shifting and efficiency dividends have created a cult of the individual agency over a unified public service, says policy and public sector expert Ian McAuley. Public servants are also losing touch with the public as consultants and staffers take over.

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APS tech recruitment failure casts $21 billion-long shadow workforce

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Will the dead hand of procurement kill digital reform in Canberra yet again?

Department secretaries in the spotlight — whether by accident or design

‘Public servants are doing political work, staffers are doing policy work’