Roxanne Kelley

A meeting of top mandarins three days after the robodebt royal commission report was handed down shows integrity is on everybody’s lips.

Secretaries board discusses May’s Budget, an updated public sector board appointment process, and agency capability reviews.

APS reform topped the agenda at the recent Secretaries Board meeting, with the government vowing to ensure Australia’s public service is “pro-integrity” and a “dynamic place to work”.

Project teams, instead of governance, are being wrongly blamed for billions wasted in cost blow-outs and projects that don’t deliver. Project managers are lobbying to fix the problem before the Commonwealth embarks on a $1 billion Centrelink ICT upgrade.