Premium Insights and analysis Budget 2024: Peter Dutton swipes Labor’s public service largesse Economy & Industry The Opposition leader sees the expansion of the APS as a waste when resources could be spent on the nation’s Defence priorities instead.
Premium Columnists Robodebt for Indigenous programs? Beyond No, Coalition prepares to slash spending October 5, 2023 By Bernard Keane Community & Social Calls for an audit of Indigenous spending, which the Coalition had little interest in while in power, would be a pretext for cuts to programs.
Community faith in APS to pursue public interest policies trumps confidence in consultants August 10, 2023 By Melissa Coade Community & Social New findings show nearly half of the community trusts the public service more than consultant firms to provide advice to government.
JSA’s independence should be looked at in two year review, says senate committee April 27, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry The senate committee wants Jobs and Skills Australia reviewed for independence from DEWR two years post amendments to the JSA bill.
Revealed: How much NSW saves by cutting senior public servants March 21, 2023 By Anna Macdonald New South Wales If either Labor or the Coalition form government in NSW on Saturday, both have promised to cut back on executive mandarins.
Time for Labor to pull the moral trigger on climate change February 16, 2023 By Melissa Coade Energy & Environment Making a difficult solution seem intractable for ordinary people serves those who wanted a monopoly on power, said Polly Hemming.
Australia’s National Anti-Corruption Agency arrives. Will it stand the test of time? December 1, 2022 By A J Brown Editors' Picks After an 18-year gestation, how does our National Anti-Corruption Agency measure up to expectations, including other international standards?
Joint committee a significant move for Indigenous affairs August 1, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Culture The elders in the Indigenous communities will not be with us forever and it is critical that their stories be recorded in a permanent form someplace.
Inflation not yet reached peak, Chalmers says July 29, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Federal Updated forecasts from federal Treasury show that inflation will hit 7.75% before the year ends, with no reprieve expected until next year.
Premium Insights and analysis It wouldn’t hurt for the government to manage parliament like it were in minority July 29, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks Australia’s first (and so far only) viable carbon-pricing scheme was introduced by a minority government under Julia Gillard, along with a raft of other useful legislation and government programs.
Premium Insights and analysis Goldilocks and the ‘right’ size emissions target July 26, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks How do you get a mechanism in place that permits an increase in an emission-reduction target without having to send legislation back to get amended every time a need to lift the target becomes apparent?
Premium Insights and analysis Let’s talk about mandates in the new parliament July 19, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks Using the argument that one party got fewer first preference votes than another and that dictates a mandate for a parliamentary term is intellectually bankrupt.
Premium Insights and analysis What does it mean when the prime minister wants to cut back on crossbench staffing? June 29, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks There’s a range of implications for taking the garden shears to crossbench funding for parliamentary staff.
Premium Insights and analysis Climate change shaping to be a huge policy priority and lots of work June 28, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks The public service will need to drop the complacency about climate change that prevailed under the previous government.
Government gets more ambitious about climate change, officially June 16, 2022 By Chris Johnson Federal The federal government has updated the United Nations on Australia’s commitment to being more ambitious about tackling climate change.
