Proposed dates for March 2025 estimates announced
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is currently scheduled to deliver the government’s budget on March 25. Wong has proposed that estimates start two days after — on the same day as the leader of the opposition traditionally delivers their budget in reply.
MoAD goes behind the lines without crossing them
Not even public servants are safe in The Museum of Australian Democracy’s (MoAD) newly opened political cartoon exhibition. Behind the Lines showcases the best political cartoons of the year. The 2024 theme is “No guts, no glory”. It reflects Australia’s love …
WA public servants get 12.5% pay bump - themandarin.com.au
Around 35,000 Western Australian public servants have scored a 12.5% pay rise over three years after the Cook government’s second offer to the state’s main administrative union, the Civil Service Association (CSA), was voted up by 85% of eligible public servants in the state.
NACC finds no corruption in Paladin investigation
Paladin was paid more than half a billion dollars to manage services in Australia’s Manus Island detention centre between 2017 and 2019. The former senior executive, pseudonymously referred to as Anne Brown, received more than $194,000 from Paladin for “management and consulting services” in 2017.
The untold history of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions
Although the Menzies government rejected the appeal, it is viewed as the opening salvo in the fight for land rights in Australia. It would be another five years until Aboriginal people were recognised as part of the Australian population.
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Dec 20, 2024 · Events & Training Public Sector Women in Leadership Summit Taking place across seven Australian capital cities, and after six massive events in August, this summit will be our biggest ever, featuring four of the most inspiring women in leadership to grace the national and the world stage.
Historic increase in ongoing APS employment
The number of ongoing APS employees increased from 151,058 to 170,186, and this has appeared to drive greater job satisfaction, union says.
The 66 new occupations facing shortages on the Skills Priority List
It found that 36% of all Australian occupation types, or 332 out of 916, have experienced shortages in 2023. That marks a 5% increase from the 2022 Skills Priority List, which was compiled by the former National Skills Commission.
ATO names David Allen as $50bn debt mountain demolisher
The Australian Taxation Office’s increasingly public battle to reduce the agency’s so-called collectable debt mountain of more than $50 billion has taken another conspicuous stride forward, with the elevation of the head of the recently forged …
Defence the biggest loser in APS contractor mass cull
Nov 3, 2024 · Contractor cuts for bought-in staff at the Department of Defence will constitute around two-thirds of the Albanese government’s high-profile insourcing push that Minister for Finance Katy Gallagher on Sunday officially quantified at chalking up $527 million worth of core work being brought back in-house.