John Howard

Labor could need a MoG to deliver changes, as separating policy wonks from clients and the Human Services model might have run its course.

The Australian National Archives has form when it comes to locking away historic documents. And it’s a bit rich to call the Dennis Richardson probe into why records were withheld from the 2003 cabinet papers ‘independent’.

Former defence minister Robert Hill reflects on a cabinet that considered major policies relating to Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war, the Murray Darling River system, live sheep exports, and the Millennium drought.

If luck is the confluence of opportunity and circumstance, Albo just hit the respin feature on reworking immigration policy.

The seeds of robodebt were planted a decade before it spawned. Forcing public servants to pick sides was the bitter harvest.

Government policy, particularly economic policy, should be quarantined as far as possible from the intervention of elected politicians.

Sector experts and recruitment agencies say that being limited to sourcing talent from the internal ranks of the APS will be challenging.