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State, territory and federal representatives of the Ministerial Council on Trade and Investment have held their first meeting.

The NT government has announced a new public servant wage policy of a 2% compounding pay increase.

The Digital Transformation Agency has opened nominations for this year’s Australian Digital Government Awards, which have replaced the federal government’s ICT awards that were last presented by the Department of Finance in 2016. The DTA invites applications from a wider group.

The slow wage growth that has become the norm across the economy is also evident in the public sector, with most governments choosing to put a hard ceiling on pay rises and risk the inevitable industrial disputes this approach tends to cause.