By Julian Bajkowski The federal government’s privacy and data watchdog has delivered the biggest stocktake of community attitudes to privacy issues in five years, revealing people are more worried about…
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Public trust of privacy protections in government slipping
By Julian Bajkowski Public trust in how well the government handles the privacy of personal information that it holds has slipped over the last five years, according to new research…
Fresh hunt for government Annual Report writers is on
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Prime Minister Tony Abbott may have pared back the names of his ministries in pursuit of Zen-like simplicity, but the public service’s peak professional…
Australian Industry Group hungry for high fibre broadband diet from Turnbull
By Julian Bajkowski New Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s key election promise to build cheaper National Broadband Network (NBN) faster using existing copper wire assets is picking-up initial static on the…
Rail Association gauges big spike in train usage
By Paul Hemsley New research commissioned by Australia’s peak rail body has found that the use of passenger, freight and light rail increased in dramatically between 2011 and 2012, after…
Australia’s police DNA database expands to cover disasters
By Paul Hemsley Police investigators across Australia will soon have better access to the federal government’s national DNA database through a powerful new search engine that will allow detectives to…
Federal police dogs issued bullet proof vests
By Paul Hemsley Dogs on the frontline of dangerous federal law enforcement operations are to be issued with special four-legged bulletproof vests as part of efforts by the Australian Federal…
Canberra bureaucrats draw up redundancy battlelines
By Julian Bajkowski Thousands of federal public servants hit by Machinery of Government (MoG) changes after the Coalition’s election victory earlier this month could have to wait until the May…
Coalition recasts federal public service structure
By Julian Bajkowski Furniture removalists and stationers in Canberra are set for a busy Christmas after Prime Minister Tony Abbott revealed his much anticipated carve-up of ministerial and departmental functions….
Abbott reveals partial secretarial reshuffle
By Julian Bajkowski Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced that the head of Treasury, Martin Parkinson PSM, will stand down from his job in April 2014, along with three other…