A casting call for a new head of property development in the West has cast a spotlight on the renewed battle to lay claim to the real centre of Sydney.
10 March, 2014
The public service union is digging in for drawn out battle over entitlements after the government opened bidding with the offer of a wage freeze.
6 March, 2014
Bluster over APS industrial negotiations and pay rises has officially hit fever pitch after the government calculated pay rises in terms of job cuts.
28 February, 2014
Public submissions normally collated and published online by the government have been dispensed with before the Budget.
24 February, 2014
Eric Abetz and Tony Abbott have dispensed with the niceties in the renegotiation of the APS’s main industrial instrument warning bureaucrats to either agree to a pay freeze or cop a haircut on leave entitlements.
19 February, 2014
Federal public servants and their union are gearing up for a once in a generation battle over entitlements, conditions and the future of the public service.
13 February, 2014
The Department of Finance is still mandating the purchase of locally made cars even though Toyota, Holden and Ford have all pulled the plug on production.
13 February, 2014
By Dr Marianne Broadbent* Multiple factors influence the disparity between the prevalence of women and men in executive roles. There are three in particular that I come across regularly, in both executive search and working with organisations on leadership capability and talent management. The first relates to how women often approach opportunities; the second is […]
20 January, 2014
By Dr Marianne Broadbent* Many leading public and commercial sector organisations are rethinking how they assess capabilities for future executives and managers in an environment of considerable ambiguity. The specific needs in particular roles might go in quite a different direction due to factors such as a change of government policy, market pressures or maybe […]
13 January, 2014
By Dr Marianne Broadbent* One of the most frequently asked questions of search firms and recruitment agencies is ‘how do I get on your radar’ or ‘how do I get noticed?’. My semi-facetious response is usually ‘make sure you have some real achievements and a track record that is worthy of being noticed’. So what […]
8 January, 2014
By Dr Marianne Broadbent* Executive Search firms are an integral part of how smart organisations find the executive and senior management talent that they need. They enable candidates to be drawn from the whole potential candidate pool, rather than those just looking for a job at a point in time, and search also involves a […]
6 January, 2014
[Editor’s Note: Both Medibank Health Service and the Department of Defence dispute and reject the assertions made by the Australian Medical Association in this article, which was originally published in the October-November issue of Government News. Please read the responses from MHS and the Department] By Dr Steve Hambleton* One of the first issues that […]
6 January, 2014
By Ken Morrison* Australia is undergoing a period of transition and our economy must move with the times. While the mining investment boom is waning, the people boom from Asia is just beginning and Australia is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this opportunity, offering a range of services including tourism. Tourism directly employs more […]
19 December, 2013
By Julian Bajkowski The Abbott government has conspicuously excluded its election promise to cut public service staffing costs by $5.2 billion through the elimination of 12,000 positions from its Mid-Year Economic and Financial Outlook (MYEFO), listing estimates for the jobs cull as “not for publication” in the statement. In a bleak snapshot that now forecasts […]
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