Services Australia seeking ADHD recruits after outsource cull Career Matters If the workforce should reflect the community, the boss just got a mirror. Broader mindsets make for more inclusive employment options.
Budget 2024: Services Australia gets funding booster May 14, 2024 By Dan Holmes Community & Social 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.
Budget 2024: APS payroll headcount surges to 300,000 May 14, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry Big boost in numbers as APS and non-APS agencies replenished with staff to cement in service delivery improvements and permanent headcount.
Services Australia reclaims its multicultural mojo, APSC CALD out over diversity May 6, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Australian Capital Territory Apex administrators and peak central agencies have been left looking pale and stale after a statistical error forced a correction to CALD tallies.
Gallagher hits APS agencies with new outsourcing tax May 5, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Careers The Albanese government will impose a new tax on the public service on using contractors and labour-hire that will rake in $375 million.
Australian Taxation Office ranked most culturally diverse APS agency May 2, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Australian Capital Territory Quantitative metrics vary from previous estimates and public statements, but the official league table reveals Anglo-dominant agencies.
Centrelink claims backlog slashed after hiring blitz April 26, 2024 By Andrew Brown Community & Social More than 500,000 Centrelink and Medicare claims have been processed and removed from the overall backlog in just 10 weeks.
KPMG declares itself ‘out of scope’ for federal probe into failed IT projects April 24, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology KPMG argues the government makes its own problems as ossified probity and procurement processes only compound longstanding problems.
Services Australia prepares to sack politically manipulative tech vendors April 23, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Australian Capital Territory Services Australia has now vowed to “be bold” when it comes to giving underperforming tech vendors the sack.
Australia Day honours removal process remains opaque April 2, 2024 By Dan Holmes Federal Ministers and departments are playing hot potato with the issue of whose responsibility it is to preserve the integrity of the Australia Day honours system.
Government introduces harsher penalties for abusing frontline workers April 2, 2024 By Dan Holmes Community & Social The maximum jail time for assaulting a commonwealth frontline worker would equal assaulting a law enforcement or judicial officer.
Tax, DEWR, DVA warned not to create robodebt 2.0 March 27, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology How to tell people they owe the government money? Not with defective software. Legacy systems and skills shortage bite agencies in the rear.
Late ACT public service luminary Damian West posthumously named IPAA fellow March 21, 2024 By Melissa Coade Federal The late Damian West PSM was one of three distinguished mandarins recognised last week with the highest national award by IPAA.
Premium Insights and analysis DVA’s trust issues take on a different tenor when lives are at stake March 20, 2024 By Melissa Coade Culture Alison Frame said a mission to expand engagement did not necessarily mean there was a case to establish a whole new agency within DVA.
More ‘intermittent water issues’ force ATO to send home Box Hill office staff, again March 13, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry The problematic ATO Box Hill bathroom pipes supposedly fixed by a plumber last Thursday have again refused to flow.
