7+ hour, 14+ min ago  (256+ words) The secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services used Senate estimates to try to fill the final five places in training sessions on parliamentary privilege. DPS secretary Jaala Hinchcliffe told Senate estimates that there was a well-established training program for…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (185+ words) Health & Aged Care Treasury / Tax / Accounting The government is seeking large savings against projected NDIS expenditure, including $37. 8 Dr Turlough Guerin is chair of the NSW Rural Fire Service Benevolent Fund and an honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne. He…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (231+ words) The Albanese government's budgetary cancellation of airline lounge perks for federal public servants, previously paid for by the government via agency conditions and individual agreements, has sparked a major internal reckoning within the Australian Public Service. As the Department of…...

7+ hour, 39+ min ago  (286+ words) With opposition to immigration now politically fashionable, the beneficiaries of immigration in the public sphere seem to have been struck dumb, especially those within the business sector, which has traditionally benefited from immigration both via the higher demand that a…...

7+ hour, 42+ min ago  (213+ words) Defence & Veterans" Affairs Logistics and supply chain managers and shipwrights should put the kettle on now. Australia will now get three second-hand Virginia-class nuclear-powered but conventionally armed US attack class submarines instead of two oldies and a newie, under the…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (245+ words) The early departure of the federal corruption watchdog's head provides an opportunity for a fresh start for the agency, the attorney-general says. National Anti-Corruption Commission chief Paul Brereton resigned on Monday, three years into his five-year term. The resignation followed…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (290+ words) Once, at the tail end of a rather bog-standard executive meeting, a CEO threw me a real curveball. For those of us lucky enough to have sat close to the decision-making table of government, it might be tempting to say…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (211+ words) Kylie'Wright will be the Australian Submarine Agency's next head of workforce, industry, and supply chain. The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) has named Derek Stiller head of the business grants hub. DISR has named Nino'Miletovic chief of staff....

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (222+ words) There's no shortage of political push-and-shove over electricity supply, demand, and pricing in Australia, but when global debt and bond ratings agencies enter the fray, policymakers and their public service scaffolders tend to pay close attention. So it was this…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (126+ words) By the late 1960s, home ownership had become more than a national aspiration; it was increasingly treated as an expected standard of adulthood. Dr Ian Fitzgerald is a Canberra-based professor of practice at the QUT Graduate School of Business, which offers…...