Public Service Act 1999

The CALD employment strategy sets out clear standards and expectations that the APS needs to better reflect the community it serves.

The public service leaders used the last meeting of the year to discuss key strategic priorities and secretaries board arrangements for 2024.

The APSC has revealed it received 16 robodebt referrals to its Code of Conduct investigative unit and has called in a second reviewer, Penny Shakespeare.

A sample of the astonishing ways the APS and the people who are paid to serve our community failed us through robodebt.

The bill adds stewardship, a purpose statement, decision-making at the lowest appropriate level and regular capability reviews.

Katy Gallagher used Tuesday’s Budget to outline how comprehensive reform of the PID will protect whistleblowing on corruption and wrongdoing.

A Long Term Insights Briefing (LTIB) model will be tested within the APS in a May pilot, as part of the APS Reform agenda.

The Public Sector Workplace Relations Policy 2023 has a roadmap for how the bureaucracy will become a model boss and employer of choice.

Katy Gallagher’s revamp of APS values is in full swing, with consultation now open for the inclusion of stewardship to the list.

Recommendation 6 of the Thodey Review — to develop an APS purpose statement — is underway, according to the country’s top mandarins.