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Survey of 5,800 government staff reveals blowouts in client waiting times, mistakes and chronic understaffing is hitting frontline services.

Tempered vision for privatised computing and shared services functions return to the fray as potential shake-up under Budget looms large.

While welfare payments and tax shifts dominate National Commission of Audit’s wish list, there’s still plenty of potential pain points for the federal public sector.

After months of anticipation, the Treasurer and Finance Minister have released a review that is so ambitious, that many of its recommendations are unlikely to make it into policy.

Decades of sweating systems infrastructure has come back to haunt policymakers after the Treasurer cautioned replacements will cost ‘billions’.

The federal Treasurer and Justice Minister have announced a landmark probe into finding better ways to manage the billions of dollars needed to mop up after and mitigate environmental ravages.

The release of the government’s bargaining framework for the looming negotiations over pay and conditions shows that the government is digging in for a fight.

Medicare and Centrelink retail duties floated as a potential lifebuoy to stop mail from drowning in red ink.

By Julian Bajkowski and Paul Hemsley A friendly knock on the door every five years from a Census collector used to be the calling card of Australia’s annual statistical stocktake….

By Julian Bajkowski The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has ratcheted up pressure on the Abbott government to resist a push to hive off thousands of federal public service…