Category: Workforce

Nowhere is the leadership skill shortage more keenly felt than in the public sector, where organisations are still struggling to promote and harness good leaders. Government News approached seven established…

Professor Gerry Stoker. COMMENT By Gerry Stoker Leaders at all levels of government need access to both hard and soft power. Local government systems throughout the world face a particularly…

COMMENT By Sharon Lowry Every year local governments around Australia take a magnifying glass to their budgets as they try to stretch their funds to enable them to provide local…

By Angela Dorizas The New South Wales Government must increase the public service to meet the challenges of population growth, a new report has found. An independent report by Eureka Economics revealed…

By Blair McPherson How you leave an organisation is as important as how you start a new job. A good ending is not only satisfying it puts your time into…

By Angela Dorizas Local government’s campaign to increase the representation of women in senior levels of the sector is gaining momentum, with some already proclaiming the Year of Women in…

Chair of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority, Christine Nixon. By Angela Dorizas Communities affected by the Black Saturday bushfires have demonstrated their resilience and determination to rebuild, according…

By Angela Dorizas The world has exceeded safe levels of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change can no longer be prevented. But rather than sinking into apathy, government leaders must…

Unemployed Australians must not be forgotten in tonight's Budget, the community services and welfare sector has said. As Treasurer Wayne Swan prepares to deliver the 2010/11 Budget, the Australian Council of Social…

Local councils and schools working to protect and restore the environment have been invited to enter in a national awards program. Nominations are soon closing for the United Nations Association…