All posts tagged "Election"

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  New Zealand set for public service headcount reductions as National Party moves to form government

  The opposition National Party is to form the next government in New Zealand after the party won enough seats to form a coalition to remove the incumbent Labour party from

  • Posted October 16, 2023
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  Letter from Ottawa: diagnosing the elements of Tired Government Syndrome

  Parliament has returned in Canada for what’s likely a final session before the election. If history is any guide, the government will find it hard to make progress before the

  • Posted September 18, 2023
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  Australia’s top public servant leaves post after Labor election victory

  Phil Gaetjens has left his post as Australia’s top public servant after the country’s incoming prime minister signalled he was prepared to dismiss him. Labor leader Anthony Albanese had indicated

  • Posted May 23, 2022
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  Social media platforms pledge to combat fake news ahead of Brazil election

  Eight social media platforms have signed individual agreements with Brazil’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) pledging to fight the spread of disinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election in October. Twitter,

  • Posted February 23, 2022
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  New Canadian government faces US$1.97bn class action lawsuit

  After the polls close in the Canadian federal election scheduled for 20 September, the newly-formed government will have to decide its next steps on a C$2.5bn (US$1.97bn) class action lawsuit

  • Posted September 19, 2021
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  All change in Canadian top jobs as election looms

  The top of the Canadian civil service has seen major changes this week, including new appointments as deputy clerk of the Privy Council and head of the Privy Council Office.

  • Posted August 25, 2021
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  Challenges to US election are ‘anti-democratic’, says former Republican House Speaker

  Republican legislators’ attempts to challenge states’ electoral college votes are “anti-democratic and anti-conservative”, former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has said, arguing that attempts to “sow doubt about

  • Posted January 5, 2021
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  US justice department strikes out election race ban on voter fraud probes

  Federal prosecutors at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have been given the green light to publicly discuss investigations into voting fraud in the run-up to the US presidential election,

  • Posted October 13, 2020
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  Grown-up government: an interview with Iain Rennie, New Zealand’s former state services commissioner

  Over four years working as a consultant to governments around the world, former New Zealand civil service chief Iain Rennie has witnessed the global slide towards populism. But in his

  • Posted September 18, 2020
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  Ireland to introduce civil service diversity targets

  Targets are to be set for the number of people from ethnic minority backgrounds employed in the public and civil service in Ireland. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green

  • Posted June 19, 2020
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