Rates and compliance reviews stay buried

NSW Government refuses to release key reports into local government, claiming the documents are exempt under the state’s information law.

7 February, 2019

Helping agencies deliver ‘high-impact messages’

A new framework provides ‘a recipe’ for improving compliance through written communications, researchers say.

12 November, 2018

The future council is ‘interconnected’

Councils need to address their myriad challenges using a multi-pronged approach, with the first being financial reporting, write Cameron Roan and Ben Smith.

8 November, 2018

Body cameras the new normal for compliance staff

Lismore City Council compliance staff will permanently wear body cameras.

14 September, 2017

Welfare debt crackdown grabs tax return cash

Centrelink goes after refund cheques.

28 June, 2016

Tax Office boosts pay offer to staff

New productivity definition finds $96 million.

11 August, 2015

Please trust me … I work for the Tax Office

Brave offer to stay out of people’s lives by creating real time collection and dumping audits.

5 August, 2015

National Archives tells agencies to tap into its Digital Skills Matrix

Digital skills now an absolute must for all public servants.

27 May, 2015

National Transition Strategy: Web accessibility in transition

Driving better government services.

2 February, 2015

Governments losing sight of risk assessments

By Paul Hemsley A new report from Gartner has found that organisations have become so buried in risk and security compliance requirements that they can’t keep up with all of them, a situation that has led to managers neglecting more important in-depth risk assessments and instead just ticking boxes. The analyst firm has cautioned that […]

16 August, 2013

Backyard pool laws make a big splash

By Julian Bajkowski The New South Wales government has launched a spring offensive on accidental drownings and will introduce new laws that more strictly regulate safety compliance for an estimated 340,000 backyard pools in the state. Local Government Minister Don Page has announced that the O’Farrell government will now compel home-owners to place their pools […]

14 September, 2012