Freedom of information (FOI) requests granted in full have hit a five-year low, according to the Office of the Australian ...

Dr Huw McKay is a visiting fellow of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. The Mandarin ...

James Twaddle, from consultancy firm Oliver Wyman, expects efficiency to be a live issue for governments, especially ...

Argentina's president has sacked 34,280 public servants and 200 government bodies since assuming office in December 2023.

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The determination covers the handling of conflicts of interest, maintaining quality control and dealing with false and misleading statements.

The real bottleneck in the race to decarbonise is the lack of credible pricing of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) that incentivises clean economic activity. A CCTC — an intermediary — won’t solve that ...

In the face of perceived tardiness on the climate change front, the environmental defender has emerged as a challenge to lawmakers and bureaucrats.

Public service commissioners have always called for more scientific techniques to improve the efficiency of public sector processes.

Freedom of Information commissioner Toni Pirani outlines her priorities for the managing of access to government information.

The public service world has gone bananas. Last year, we had weird stories of annoying coworkers, whales as spies, ...

The consultation paper was triggered by improper use of privilege for documents containing legal advice in numerous cases.