Katy Gallagher

Australian small business and family enterprise ombud has slammed the government for rejecting most of his procurement recommendations.

Inflation haunts Jim Chalmers’ third budget, but Katy Gallagher is confident responsible measures the government is taking will temper pressures.

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

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

Katy Gallagher signals $27.9 bil in savings and reprioritisations in next week’s federal budget to show ‘responsible economic management’.

The Albanese government will impose a new tax on the public service on using contractors and labour-hire that will rake in $375 million.

Killings in 2022-23 increased by 4%; disturbingly, the number of women killed by an intimate partner in that same period increased by 28%.

The CALD employment strategy sets out clear standards and expectations that the APS needs to better reflect the community it serves.

An IMF Fiscal Monitor report said the government had jumped from equal 14th in 2021 to No.2 for balancing budgets.

Aviation firefighters are aiming the high-pressure hose and their union to get the APSC and the government to rethink the WFH policy.