Julian Bajkowski

If the workforce should reflect the community, the boss just got a mirror. Broader mindsets make for more inclusive employment options.

Secretaries have been disempowered from picking their own staff, especially when sock-puppeted by their ministers.

Queensland, NSW ready to offer cop defectors more money to move their badges over from the Australian Federal Police to the state forces.

The ATO gets a bigger headcount for bigger returns, with tightening, lightening and frightening money taken from all corners of the economy.

Big boost in numbers as APS and non-APS agencies replenished with staff to cement in service delivery improvements and permanent headcount.

Finance Department scores $35 million for digital ID “policy leadership”; ASIO to vet government-issued, made-in-Australia digital wallets.

Federal union conqueror Peter Riordan trades up to one of the southern hemisphere’s biggest payrolls, the NSW Department of Education.

Debt-collection outsourcing is set to be hit by the consultancy-use levy, including the Australian Taxation Office’s contracting of services.

New South Wales Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig’s day started inelegantly and was resembling a Brechtian farce by mid-afternoon.

Routers and fast bandwidth become the hot new foreign currency as the nation’s tech providers are advised to hone their diplomatic skills.

Doctors get vet skills to tend to a Sapper’s best friend, as defence dogs get a stretcher on the Globemaster after a bad day at the office.

Just imagine being able to phone a doctor for a referral or script renewal without waiting for an hour — patients discover time is valuable.