Ken Henry

Firms see value in hiring people who have held senior roles in the public sector for key management roles in consulting firms.

Welfare bureaucrats have been warned not to bend the truth over who gave the green light to generate a billion dollars in illegal debts from flaky extrapolations.

A deeper dive into the people tasked with bringing Service Australia’s user experience of government technology into the 2020s.

What budget promises are made can be hard to track. It will be left to the public service to pick up the trail once the election is over.

For anyone working in the public service in Australia, 2022 will be even harder that 2021 was, says Stephen Bartos.

The Coalition in government simply cut the APS out of the policy process altogether by handing ever more work to consulting firms.

Peter Costello tackles the thorny issue of where, when and how a department of state should be having its own view, and what does that mean for the relationship between the secretary of the Treasury and the treasurer of the day.

The importance of trust was a focus of the recent ANU Crawford Leadership Forum. The forum brought together 200 thinkers and decision-makers from Australia and across the world to explore why trust was falling and what could be done about it.