An in-house consulting unit will be established within the federal government to provide professional services to agencies, reducing the reliance on external consultants, while contractors will be used “only...
The Coalition’s plan to cut more than $3 billion from the public service to pay for its election promises will lead to a jump in spending on consultants and...
With a change of government a real prospect according to the opinion polls, public servants are starting to gossip about what an Albanese administration would mean for them. For...
Labor has vowed to rebuild the Australian Public Service into a model employer that is better able to provide frank and fearless advice to Government. If elected, Labor would...
There are fresh calls to reign in the growing and “excessive” use of consultants by the public service, after evidence the Coalition government is currently on pace to spend...
A year-long review of the Australian Public Service has slammed the growing externalisation of ICT projects and skills, warning contractors are now being relied on for “core, ongoing work”...
Time is running out to apply for the public sector Coaching for Women in Digital Program, with applications closing on Monday 9 August. Now in its second year, the...
The federal opposition has accused the government of being “wilfully blind” to the use of labour hire within the public service, amid growing concerns about the over reliance on...
The federal government must make an “urgent investment” in Australian public service staff to avoid any more government technology “failures” like robodebt, COVIDSafe and the 2016 census outage, a...
There are more temporary contract workers involved in government technology projects than full-time Australian Public Service staff, with some large agencies using more than four times as many tech...