Turnbull amputates welfare payments outsourcing

Election scuttles another overhaul.

20 June, 2016

Questions fly over billion dollar overhaul of Human Services

Opposition demands release of business case and costings.

16 April, 2015

Health care: was 2014 the year of action?

An ageing population presents real challenges.

14 January, 2015

Outsourcing push reveals Health and DHS split

Cross-agency confusion on welfare infrastructure

11 August, 2014

Fletcher spells out ‘digital by default’ expectations for federal agencies

Ministerial pressure is mounting for agencies to get their act together online ahead of a 2017 deadline.

18 June, 2014

Trouble plagued eHealth project gets $140 million to continue pending review

Tony Abbott couldn’t get eHealth running as John Howard’s Health Minister. But the long march to digitise medicine will continue.

13 May, 2014

NICTA told to get private funding after 2016

Australia’s tech powerhouse becomes a victim of its own commercial success.

13 May, 2014

Cormann’s laundry list of mergers and cuts

Consolidations galore as the bureaucratic round-up begins.

13 May, 2014

Second wave of APS retrenchments put on hold… at least for now

Third and biggest wave of agency amalgamations scheduled for MYEFO 2014-15.

13 May, 2014

Abolitions and sell-offs galore as authorised Budget leaks abound

Money making mint to be sold, loss-making Australia Post kept, corporate watchdog registry slips leash.

13 May, 2014

Budget 2014: Hockey forced to junk target of 26,500 APS job cuts

Treasurer Joe Hockey has prevailed over hard-line factional rivals after the government started to massage down its APS job shedding estimates and moderate its message over the level of deep cuts needed.

12 May, 2014

Tax set to fire 3,000 staff as Abbott’s ‘natural attrition’ promise for APS falls

Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the green light to mass redundancies in government agencies to prosecute public service spending cuts in the forthcoming Budget.

9 May, 2014

Stark warning from Shepherd on Commonwealth super funding and Future Fund

The man tasked with finding ways to save money has nominated ballooning Commonwealth Superannuation liability as a big problem that will need to be addressed one way or the other.

6 May, 2014

Commission of Audit cuts could nuke 25,000 public service jobs

Alarm bells are ringing in both the bureaucracy and and unions that the National Commission of Audit’s figure of 15,000 job losses is badly understated when measured against the real scope of recommended cuts and outsourcing.

2 May, 2014