Treasury

Services Australia will receive $1.8 billion over three years to fund more service delivery staff; 4,030 new staff will join the agency in 2024-25, and another 3,530 the following year.

Paul Brereton updated the secretaries board on the work of the NAAC and asked for their backing in conducting the public sector-wide survey.

Key Victorian budget investments in health, education, transport and housing are guiding the state’s rise to the challenge in the aftermath of the COVID-19.

Apex administrators and peak central agencies have been left looking pale and stale after a statistical error forced a correction to CALD tallies.

The government is continuing to brand PwC as being responsible for its initiatives to reform professional services regulation.

Chalmers’ comments came two weeks before the federal Budget, and months short of the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference.

The AFP’s Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce is looking for searchers. Like Kenny, a chartered accountant who joined the force.

Jim Chalmers says governments asking for more commonwealth money is not an unprecedented phenomenon and ‘pretty standard’.

Chalmers, Albanese opt for continuity with trusted Steven Kennedy. Second time’s a charm for the seasoned reformer, economist and technocrat.