New Social Services secretary Lye is a career civilian
2024年12月5日 · Disability services veteran Michael Lye has been given the top job of the persistently challenging Department of Social Services, marking a return to civilian policy leadership after a sustained period of drawing from the ranks of the military and defence. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the appointment on Thursday afternoon, saying Lye would move across from the Department of Health ...
Facts under fire in CSIRO’s latest GenCost report - The Mandarin
2024年5月22日 · CSIRO’s latest GenCost report has started another round of bare-knuckle boxing over the rigour of the national science agency’s energy market projections. GenCost is an annual report that seeks policy and technology-neutral cost estimates for new electricity generation, storage, and hydrogen technologies through 2050.
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Defence the biggest loser in APS contractor mass cull
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. Defence is the only department that …
Antarctic crew strikes leave APS wage deal out in the cold - The …
Australia’s sovereign icebreaker servicing Antarctica is set to be stuck in port during the coming winter, as its crew prepares to walk out over the same federal wage dispute primed to cripple airports in opposition to the Australian Public Service Commission’s (APSC) wage deal. Successful protected industrial action ballot results filed with the …
ATO moves tech reshuffle as new IT leader sought - The Mandarin
The art to succession is having a plan beyond a new leader. But first you need a new leader. The ATO's replacements for Ramiz Katf are yet to appear.
WA public servants get 12.5% pay bump - themandarin.com.au
Around 35,000 Western Australian public servants are to get a 12.5% pay rise over three years after the Cook government’s second offer to the CSA.
Key Queensland public service leaders turfed
Queensland directors-general Mike Kaiser, Jasmina Joldić, Deidre Mulkeirn and Mike Walsh have lost their jobs.
Albanese and NT combine to spend $4 bil on Indigenous housing
The federal-territory agreement aims to see up to 270 houses built annually in remote Indigenous communities.
The untold history of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions
Clare Wright has spent the past 10 years investigating the Yirrkala Bark Petitions — one of Parliament House's most mysterious artefacts.