New Zealand

Leading scientists, researchers and innovators from across Australia and New Zealand have united to provide governments with the latest evidence to assist with the coronavirus pandemic.

Canada has topped a league table ranking G20 countries by the proportion of women amongst their senior civil servants, with a 48.1% figure putting it 1.8 points ahead of second-placed Australia.

The country will move from the highest restriction — alert level four — to level three from the morning of April 28. The situation will be reviewed after two weeks.

Chief executives in the New Zealand Public Service have volunteered to slash their pay by 20% over the next six months in response to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Wednesday.

The buck stops here, now: critical decisions need to be made across all departments and agencies. We will be judged on how well we ‘do politics’ at this critical time. Here is a provisional inventory of current and foreseeable hot issues facing the public service and public sector.

Labor believes all people in Australia — regardless of their visa status — should receive appropriate support in the COVID-19 crisis. It’s the right thing to do, and it’s the Australian way.

Although conference organisers and male speakers have leverage on how diverse a panel turns out, professional women can also take matters into their own hands to ensure speaking panels at conferences have an equal amount of women to men on them.

Welcome to Mandarin Premium’s latest newsletter, Intelligence Briefing, your guide to the most important developments from public sectors across the globe. The COVID-19 coronavirus has created an unprecedented challenge for Australian departments across all portfolios, and determining what governments have done well — and not so well — could very well be crucial to meeting […]