Captive audience loses hard currency
Tag: australia-post
Online government seeks retail therapy to sell one-stop-shop and shed jobs
Digital services from agencies like Medicare and Tax return to bricks-and-mortar.
Post to front crisis talks with CPSU as anger over chief’s $4.8 million salary grows
Few deny the paper mail business is headed for red ink, but there are many questions over why the head of a government business threatening to make billion dollar losses is still being paid a big banker’s salary on the taxpayer’s coin.
Australia Post’s senior executives under fire over leaked mass redundancy details
Industrial tensions escalate over softening up tactics.
Warning of surge in customer aggression caused by 6,000 APS job cuts
Survey of 5,800 government staff reveals blowouts in client waiting times, mistakes and chronic understaffing is hitting frontline services.
Turnbull strongly backs Hockey on merged Human Services and Australia Post functions
Medicare and Centrelink retail duties floated as a potential lifebuoy to stop mail from drowning in red ink.
Total APS job cuts too difficult to predict for Public Service Commission
By Julian Bajkowski The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has released its annual stocktake of the federal bureaucracy with the grim warning that it is now “difficult to predict” how…
eHealth examination probes for private sector buy-in
By Julian Bajkowski The private sector and medical providers could soon have a much bigger say in how Australia’s ailing efforts to create a national system of electronic health and…
New Tax app launched in frustration
By Julian Bajkowski A long running push by Australia’s independent software community to spur the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) into improving and adding new features to the revenue agency’s eTax…
Proposed Centrelink and Australia Post retail fusion draws fire
By Julian Bajkowski A proposal to use Australia Post’s retail footprint to deliver shopfront services for welfare agency Centrelink has drawn immediate fire from the union representing federal public servants….