Outsourcing, APS efficiency and procurement in Audit Commission crosshairs
Tempered vision for privatised computing and shared services functions return to the fray as potential shake-up under Budget looms large.
2 May, 2014Tempered vision for privatised computing and shared services functions return to the fray as potential shake-up under Budget looms large.
2 May, 2014While 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.
1 May, 2014After 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.
1 May, 2014Destruction caused by natural disasters has led to a concerted push by local governments for more money from Canberra and the states to alleviate potential future damage.
25 March, 2014Public submissions normally collated and published online by the government have been dispensed with before the Budget.
24 February, 2014By Julian Bajkowski The Abbott government has conspicuously excluded its election promise to cut public service staffing costs by $5.2 billion through the elimination of 12,000 positions from its Mid-Year Economic and Financial Outlook (MYEFO), listing estimates for the jobs cull as “not for publication” in the statement. In a bleak snapshot that now forecasts […]
17 December, 2013By 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 jobs to multinational outsourcers like Serco and G4S – which it claims is likely to be recommended by the forthcoming National Commission of Audit. The […]
17 December, 2013By Julian Bajkowski The war of words over the scale and pace of downsizing in the Australian Public Service has sharply intensified after Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Minister for Employment, Senator Eric Abetz hit out at the former Labor government over plans to axe Department of Human Services call […]
11 December, 2013By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has made a reinvigorated push stop the states and Canberra from dumping more service delivery functions on the doorsteps of councils without sufficient and ongoing funding. The peak body’s submission to the Abbott government’s National Commission of Audit, which is tasked with reviewing […]
3 December, 2013By 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. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has warned that although a “one-stop shop where you can sort out your mum’s pension entitlements and pick-up […]
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