Government inches towards public schools funding deal with states Australian Capital Territory Despite promises from successive governments since the Gonski review, the SRS has never been met in Australian public schools.
Dreyfus delivers on a decades old promise for national gun register April 29, 2024 By Dan Holmes Federal Australian governments agreed to institute a national firearms register in 1996, following the Port Arthur Massacre.
A class act – learning from Canberra’s anti-silo public service November 7, 2022 By Melissa Coade Editors' Picks Kathy Leigh used an IPAA ACT secretary series speech to explain what can be learned from the mandarins of Australia’s capital.
Premium Interviews Halting homelessness will require outcomes focus for at-risk Australians August 3, 2022 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Advocacy group Homelessness Australia urges a 10-year target to eliminate homelessness in Australia by 2032.
Election 2022: Labor to target consultancy spend in public sector April 14, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Federal Katy Gallagher says it could cost billions to rebuild capacity within the Australian Public Service because it has lost critical skill sets.
Premium Insights and analysis What’s the point of advisory bodies if they’re ignored? April 11, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks Should a government maintain an advisory body if it does not want to take advice from it? The pre-election budget conspicuously failed to take into account expert advice in some areas.
Premium Insights and analysis COAG changes hang in the balance as politicians take aim at Secretary Gaetjens October 25, 2021 By Melissa Coade Culture Reading the views of minor party members of the senate committee, passage of the COAG amendment bill for law reforms through the senate is in doubt.
Premium Columnists It’s revenge time, as Morrison strikes back over AAT’s national cabinet decision September 10, 2021 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks A piece of legislation sitting in the parliament right now surely takes the cake for arrogance and it is dragging the Australian public with it all the way.
Moving beyond fiscal squabbling to a ‘capacity-based’ federalism August 19, 2021 By Andrew Bushnell and Ken Smith Australian Capital Territory We need to rethink the value of federalism, subsidiarity, and the different roles and responsibilities of different levels of government.
Nowhere to hide: the significance of national cabinet not being a cabinet August 9, 2021 By Anne Twomey Editors' Picks When is a cabinet not a cabinet? When it is really an intergovernmental body that is pretending to be a cabinet so it can avoid transparency.
Premium Insights and analysis For public servants, the future of the national cabinet means adapting to centralised power and engineering accountability December 7, 2020 By Chris Woods Australian Capital Territory The establishment of the national cabinet as first a crisis, and ultimately permanent, body has presented the most radical change to Australia’s intergovernmental cooperation structures since the creation of the Council of Australian Governments in 1992.
Premium Columnists With isolation over, in Canberra it’s back to normal with a bump we all would recognise June 11, 2020 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks It was a great party while it lasted, but now the stragglers are leaving and the hangover is setting in, writes Verona Burgess.
Federation reform sees COAG replaced with national cabinet May 29, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal Following the national cabinet’s Friday meeting Scott Morrison announced the group would continue to operate in the future and would be driven by a “singular agenda” — creating jobs.
Ex premiers call for another year of national cabinet over COAG May 28, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal Two former premiers have warned against leaders returning to the old, pre-pandemic ways, which could damage public trust and throw away a rare opportunity to build a brighter future.
Council of digital transformation ministers publishes manifesto August 26, 2019 By The Mandarin Australian Capital Territory Almost a year after the addition of the Australian Digital Council to the constellation of bodies that make up the Council of Australian Governments its terms of reference have been released.
