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The attorney-general’s department is advertising for several roles for a National Anti-Corruption Commission Taskforce (aka 'a federal ICAC').
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“If [the federal government] doesn’t want to set KPIs and targets, now is the time to rate them and say, ‘Well, you’ve done your best – if that’s the best, it’s not good enough.’ Really, we need people who have a clue,”
@billbowtell
said.
#auspol
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Strategic commissioning as a mechanism in government - how value should be created, delivered, captured & governed.
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Charles Wann, former chief of staff to Scott Morrison during his time as minister for social services, has been told to front the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme as more senior public servants and political staffers are called to give evidence.
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A Services Australia employee was cautioned that even speaking at the robodebt royal commission would mean she would be “resigned to staying in [her] current level as it would be unlikely that [she] could ever advance”.
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@Senator_Patrick
asks
@ANAO_Australia
to investigate a series of pre-election appointments of people with links to the Coalition parties to government bodies.
#auspol
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Former High Court judge Virginia Bell's report into Scott Morrison's secret appointments was delivered this week, describing his actions as "unnecessary". As
@TRAVLIC
investigates, why has clear and confrontational language been ignored in it?
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Australia’s chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, says modelling showing the Omicron variant leading to 200,000 cases a day is unlikely to occur and “misleading” if presented as a likely scenario.
#auspol
#COVID19Aus
#OmicronVariant
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Sydney’s iconic, and radically innovative green apartment block — One Central Park — has won a slew of global design prizes. Now its developer, Sekisui House, is taking its holistic philosophy to everyday dwellings in the suburbs and regions.
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Key public servants embroiled in the robodebt scandal are now almost certain to escape dismissal or disciplinary sanctions while in their jobs.
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Senator Katy Gallagher has raised concerns information she received from public servants is different to that released in a report under freedom of information.
#auspol
#misleading
#socialservices
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With each day comes further confirmation that robodebt was an unlawful scheme. As
@TRAVLIC
writes, a question that ought to bother observers of the royal commission is why, unlike in past eras, the illegal scheme failed to cost ministers their jobs.
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The Albanese government has cut off access to generous termination payout provisions for sacked departmental secretaries if they are found to have breached the Australian Public Service Code of Conduct, deemed corrupt, or a sexual harasser or bully.
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Probe Group will be grilled as to how it sought to profit from the Robodebt scheme. It follows findings that the agency was awarded hefty contracts by Services Australia during the time the illegal welfare shakedown program operated. [PREMIUM]
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“It was really important for me to tell the truth," says ATO whistleblower, Richard Boyle.
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@ProfPCDoherty
has crunched the numbers: without vaccination, COVID-19 will likely kill 1% to 1.5% of those infected, which is is 10 times the annual death rate for influenza. [Premium]
#auspol
#COVID19Aus
#vaccination
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Privatising public transport has probably not made it cheaper or better
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The Australian Federal Police Association welcomes the move, having previously said being in Home Affairs 'weakened the integrity' of the AFP.
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@TurnbullMalcolm
knows that building new coal mines will simply make matters worse, especially for workers in existing mothballed coal mines, writes
@RDNS_TAI
.
#auspol
#climatecrisis
#climateaction
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A new federal ICAC is the only concrete idea on the table that confronts declining public trust in government
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The Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions has revealed it has spent $280,000 prosecuting whistleblower Richard Boyle.
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Independent MP Dr
@SophieScamps
has called for all appointments in Australia to be subject to the same rigour as commonwealth boards. As
@Coadem
reports, Scamps said the selection process should be "transparent and independent".
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Utopia, Working Dog Productions’ comedy about public service, will have a new season in 2023. As
@annamabelmac
reports, the series has been praised for its accuracy of what it’s like to work in a modern-day bureaucracy.
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World leading economists and thinkers
@StephanieKelton
@elerianm
@Jayati1609
@SongweVera
@MrKRudd
@BetseyStevenson
@dambisamoyo
@ianbremmer
offer their definition of the post-pandemic age. [Premium Unlocked]
#leadership
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Check mate. The
@VicLegalAid
team is celebrating a big win against
#robodebt
as the federal government concedes it acted unlawfully in a landmark case. VLA's Rowan McRae (pic) says hundreds of thousands of debts were equally invalid.
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The royal commission into the robodebt scheme alone isn't enough, writes
@BillShortenMP
. "What Australians want to hear from the political class... is a promise that it was wrong and will never happen again".
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There aren't many ideas libertarians, tech gurus & feminists agree on. Basic income is one: via
@apoliticalco
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Public servants urged to stand up against corruption
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I have spoken with a vast array of media people as the Christian Porter story unfolded, been asked 1000 questions and mostly replied with: “I can’t comment on that.” says Michael Bradley from
@marquelawyers
via
@crikey_news
#auspol
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Two members of the ARC's college of experts have quit in protest at what they say is Stuart Robert's inappropriate project grants overreach.
#auspol
#grants
#grantfunding
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Following the May election, the Department of Home Affairs warned its minister, Peter Dutton, of “more frequent and severe heatwaves, bushfires, floods, and cyclones” in an incoming government brief.
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Lunch with a whistleblower: how inadequate laws ‘lure’ public servants into disclosing but fail to protect them. Shannon Jenkins reports on this week's discussions with
@Richard_D_Boyle
@Senator_Patrick
@adele_ferguson
and others.
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Philip Lowe says profits aren't driving inflation, except for a few "specific areas". Too bad those "specific areas" make up most of an ordinary Australian's spending, writes
@BernardKeane
.
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Nine anti-corruption commissioners from across Australia all say public sector leaders must take the risk of
#corruption
more seriously in a strongly-worded open letter. Will they take the time to read it?
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A National Press Club debate about tax with Allegra Spender and Richard Dennis that went beyond three-word slogans.
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While Virginia Bell's report held Scott Morrison fully responsible for his secret appointments, she criticised the APS' choice not to speak truth to power when it should have. As Vergona Burgess writes, this was ultimately down to Gaetjens. [PREMIUM]
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Rex Patrick's court victory confirms an implied obligation under the FOI Act for public servants to avoid frustrating access to documents.
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New modelling shows that reducing COVID-19 restrictions after only 80% of the adult population has been vaccinated is insufficient. [Premium]
#COVID19Aus
#vaccination
#lockdowns
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The Abbott govt saved $462m from public service job cuts, then spent an extra $10b on new outsourced services.
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A letter coordinated by
@TheAusInstitute
has nearly 40 prominent signatories calling for nationally consistent truth-telling laws in political ads.
#auspol
#honesty
#advertisinglaws
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Former ATO employee
@Richard_D_Boyle
says the Inspector-General of Taxation of significantly distorted the facts in a review of the claims he made on
@4corners
last year.
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The royal commission into the robodebt scheme alone isn't enough, writes
@BillShortenMP
. "What Australians want to hear from the political class... is a promise that it was wrong and will never happen again".
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2000 Immigration department staff have signed a statement of no confidence in senior management and the government
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With each day comes further confirmation that robodebt was an unlawful scheme. As
@TRAVLIC
writes, a question that ought to bother observers of the royal commission is why, unlike in past eras, the illegal scheme failed to cost ministers their jobs.
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Victoria moves ahead with plans for treaty with First Peoples
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Starved of funding, the National Archives are ‘completely dysfunctional’ for serious scholarship, says Anne Twomey
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Why did the government hire PwC to review its work, wait until the firm had produced a 100-page document, then tell it to put the report on ice – yet pay the consultancy $850k? The answer, writes
@antonknilsson
is buried deep in the robodebt report.
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A new examination revealed by
@JulianHillMP
will unpack the findings of the damning
@ANAO_Australia
assessment of the
@DTA
, which as Julian Bajkowski reminds us, failed on all information and communications technology service procurements it probed.
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In a twist that an episode of Utopia couldn't make up, Services Australia sent out a big reset email last Friday as the
#robodebt
scandal was imploding.
The new typeface for the agency that created the unlawful scheme? Roboto.
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SA public servants anonymously report pretty much every kind of misbehaviour imaginable: corruption, laziness, incompetence, bullying, nepotism and the rest, but most fear coming forward. The ICAC says these sorts of complaints must be taken seriously.
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During a visit to Parramatta Female Factory,
@tanya_plibersek
drew attention to the life of convict girl Julia Allen, who was sent to the institution after declaring she would be “dead” before she accepted working for her master again.
@Coadem
has more.
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A new government means new political staffers — and they’re hiring. The work is important and the pay is good.
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Claiming the proposed Voice amendment is racist misunderstands existing race powers within the Australian constitution, according to a constitutional expert.
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The Labor government has revealed six major MOG changes across federal departments, including two new departments.
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Why does water administration require ‘cloak and dagger’ secrecy akin to ASIO?
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Behind robodebt lies a deeper story of how the balance of individual and collective responsibilities within the government failed to serve Australians well. To focus on one, without addressing the other, would be a grievous error, writes Sean Innis.
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The car parks affair has shown the incalculable value of the ANAO as an instrument for honesty and accountability in public administration, writes
@SDHamiltonVIC
and
@StuartKells
#auspol
#corruption
#CarParkRorts
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Minister for social services
@AmandaRishworth
said the Coalition’s failure to invest in welfare meant 17% of Jobseeker payments were incorrect.
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Think a federal
#corruption
watchdog would have little to do? Think again, says retired judge Stephen Charles. Just look at all the scandals and controversies in recent news, he suggests. Corrupting public servants is a core business for organised crime.
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Brain drain: if you leave public servants doing nothing more than managing consultants' contracts, "they’re going to leave"
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“[Targets] have got to be in the hands of the state premiers and chief ministers because as a collective group, I think they have done much better. They should take over all aspects of the response to this.”
@billbowtell
said.
#auspol
#COVID19Aus
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Richard Boyle’s recent attempt to use the provisions of the Public Interest Disclosure Act failed to convince the judge.
@bkampmark
takes a look at what this means.
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"Arguably, it’s not the job of a citizen to understand the complexities of government, but rather the job of government is to do the hard work to abstract the complexities of governance for better engagement and services for citizens,"
@piawaugh
writes.
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Labor’s plan to create new laws giving workers 10 days of paid family and
#domesticviolence
leave will be introduced to parliament on Thursday.
#entitlements
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As many Australians move out of lock-downs and into hybrid work schedules, one thing is certain - a new way of leadership is needed to ensure employees remain engaged, satisfied, and productive in their new situations.
#hybridwork
#PublicSector
(Sponsored)
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"If you have thin-skinned or intellectually lightweight PMs like Abbott or Morrison, or a vindictive one like Howard, you'll have a more politicised APS leadership", writes
@BernardKeane
in a special series for Premium members.
Read more:
#publicservice
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Indigenous public servants facing 'everyday racism' is the subject of a prize-winning thesis by an academic who spent 14 years in the APS and saw her decision to take a voluntary redundancy as “an act of political warfare”.
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Professor A J Brown has called for an overhaul of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013, “to better support a consistent, coherent, and workable national approach to whistleblower protection across Australia’s public sector”.
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Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has fallen to 41st out of 50 in the latest
#AidTransparencyIndex
.
#foreignaffairs
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PwC is no longer the Department of Finance’s auditor for a whole of government property services program, a question on notice has revealed.
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Speech: Jackie Huggins of
@congressmob
introduces the Black Lives Matter activists, November 1.
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If you care about the quality of public services and their real-world impact, the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme is the catalyst for reform that’s been waiting to happen for years.
Get the inside story, not the soundbites.
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“I think it’s time we rethought some of these rules, rather than play by the rules.”
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The knowledge of service delivery staff is still undervalued by those who develop policy
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Among those familiar with the Big Four and their role in government, the
#PwC
affair isn't very surprising. Tax and audit scandals have occurred with banal regularity over the past four or five decades, and big consulting firms have often been embroiled.
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Our next live lunchtime webcast is on next Monday - have you registered? Our panel of experts will be discussing how to make
#opengovernment
real. Register today.
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Greens
@SenatorSurfer
Peter Whish-Wilson has warned the
@NationalFarmers
Federation that appeasing the National party is ‘a fool’s game’.
#auspol
#ClimateCrisis
#NetZero
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Australian Border Force fiasco: how to create a public relations disaster
http://t.co/uwlaFfTw5m
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Anti-corruption commissioners unite to demand public sector leaders take integrity more seriously:
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AEC’s social media team knows it faces a test providing real-time advice in the lead-up to the 2022 federal election, writes Peter Gearin for Premium.
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The creation of an independent, non-political body to monitor and advise on how governments can meet New Zealand’s climate change targets was one of the most important parts of the Zero Carbon Act.
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Dr Kathy Ophel Keller was one of the 74 people awarded a Public Service Medal (PSM) in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours, in recognition of her "outstanding public service to the agricultural industry through research and innovative leadership”.
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It’s not often the public rallies around a public servant, but a petition in support of Louise Herron has passed 265,000 signatures
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While governments continue to move services online, many Australians still lack access to the internet
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Why
@TurnbullMalcolm
could learn from Kenya — yes, Kenya — in delivering seamless online government services:
http://t.co/LKVlJ5KrUV
#gov2au
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People are right to be dubious about empathy training — it has all the hallmarks of a human resources fad.
#auspol
#empathytraining
#LNP
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Evidence-based policy is like a black rhino — “seldom seen and rarely funded”
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Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commissioner Susan Pascoe wins $20k prize for public sector leadership
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The Medibank Private hack has been perceived as a breach of trust, changing the future of cyber security. As Tom Ravlic writes, the incident has led to calls for definitive legal mechanisms by which victims can seek compensation. [PREMIUM]
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Foreign affairs minister
@SenatorWong
has called China’s
#militaryexercises
around
#Taiwan
'disproportionate and destabilising'.
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Hedge funds dominate the Murray-Darling Basin water market, making hundreds of millions of dollars each year. As
@SDHamiltonVIC
and
@StuartKells
write, this money could be retained to pursue economic, environmental & socio-cultural benefits. [PREMIUM]
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A recent Garvan Research Foundation report indicated that the further a patient lives from a major city the more likely they are to die within five years of diagnosis. (Partner Content)
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