NSW councils give government minister a serve

Paul Toole in the firing line.

12 October, 2015

Councils in frame for new NSW data grab law

Analytics for all.

25 August, 2015

VIC Auditor-General warns on ‘eroding mandate’

“There are more audits listed than we can do.”

25 June, 2015

Is Brisbane proof biggest councils aren’t best?

BCC falls down on 3 of 4 financial indicators.

16 June, 2015

Cormann wields fresh razor for new APS cuts: the laundry list

But big sell offs stall amid backlash.

12 May, 2015

Big corporates better at attracting people with disabilities than the public sector

Disability employment rate in the public sector continues to fall.

23 March, 2015

Regulators investigate debt collection industry

Consumers warned about dodgy debt collectors.

9 December, 2014

Local councils to find out if they outperform private sector and federal government agencies

NSW Councils get their report cards.

19 November, 2014

Death of a Postman: Fahour cheques out Medicare

Mail volumes predicted to “literally fall off a cliff”

15 August, 2014

More musical chairs for top government jobs

Career wheel turns for security chiefs and public service heads

22 July, 2014

Jane Halton leaves Health for Finance, Treasury still open

More announcements pending in latest round of APS musical chairs

26 June, 2014

Finance launches investigation into ERP software costs

By Julian Bajkowski The Department of Finance has put some of the world’s biggest business software companies on notice that their lucrative contracts will soon be the subject to a sweeping review as the federal government seeks to extract better value from so-called enterprise resource management (ERP) systems. Just a week after the election of […]

17 September, 2013

Rudd taps software vendor profits to extract carbon scheme savings

By Julian Bajkowski Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has thrown down the gauntlet to Commonwealth Public Service executives to start extracting much greater efficiency and productivity gains from technology and software or face the prospect of hundreds of upper-level forced redundancies. Mr Rudd and Treasurer Chris Bowen on Tuesday revealed well-anticipated expenditure reduction measures aimed at […]

16 July, 2013

Councils to sue Standard & Poors in new action

By Julian Bajkowski Australian councils burned by toxic investments in collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) from collapsed bank Lehman Bros. have escalated their legal action and will try and rope-in ratings agency Standard & Poors in their bid to recover losses of around $200 million. Litigation funder IMF said on Tuesday afternoon that it will file […]

16 April, 2013