All posts tagged "Australia"

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  Australian public servants receive 11.2% pay offer over three years

  Australian public servants have been offered a three-year deal to increase their pay over 11% after an initial pay offer was rejected by officials in June. Public servants rejected a

  • Posted September 3, 2023
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  Australia releases gender responsive budgeting guidance for federal departments

  The Australian Office for Women has released guidance for federal agencies on gender responsive budgeting. The APS (Australian Public Service) Guide to Gender Analysis and Gender Impact Assessment aims to

  • Posted August 22, 2023
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  AI ‘to quicken UK government decision-making’; Australian public servants await pay offer: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. AI could quicken government decision-making, says UK deputy prime minister The UK’s deputy prime minister

  • Posted August 17, 2023
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  Australia’s public service commission rejects four-day week bid

  The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has rejected a bid by federal government employees and unions for a four-day work week. The bid entered negotiations between public service unions and

  • Posted July 26, 2023
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  Stark implications for Australian Public Service in wake of Robodebt report

  The release of the Royal Commission report into the Robodebt scheme has exploded a hand grenade under Australian politics and government, identifying problems across the Australian Public Service that will

  • Posted July 23, 2023
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  ‘We want to make evaluation a fundamental part of what government does’: the inside story of setting up the Australian Centre for Evaluation

  The Australian government, led by prime minister Anthony Albanese, has created a Australian Centre for Evaluation to improve appraisal of policy and delivery across departments. In an exclusive interview, Treasury

  • Posted July 16, 2023
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  Republicans could politicise 50,000 civil service jobs, US academic warns

  A Republican president would revive Trump’s bid to take powers to dismiss any civil servant involved in policy work, a leading American academic has said at an event on civil

  • Posted July 12, 2023
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  ‘Radical incrementalism’: new APS commissioner details 10-year reform agenda

  Priorities for reform of the Australian Public Service (APS) will include a focus on people, behaviours and strengthening laws and institutions to ensure that the APS can sustain delivering and

  • Posted July 3, 2023
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  Reports of sexual harassment at US federal agencies fall; Australia opens consultation on data and digital strategy: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Survey shows that reports of sexual harassment in US federal agencies have decreased Reports of

  • Posted June 22, 2023
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  UK public sector faces productivity review; US government told to quicken pace of federal property sales: policy and delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. UK chancellor launches public sector productivity task force with AI focus The UK finance minister

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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