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The government is poised to up its pay offer to public servants from nothing at all to a below inflation pay increase as talks begin in earnest.

Australia’s number-cruncher-in-chief has cautioned expectations around cuts and services are unsustainable and that any attempts to think smarter or differently prioritising resources are being crowded out.

Hardball tactics and a paucity of detailed information is taking its psychological toll on public servants and the clients they are required to serve.

CPSU warns Commission of Audit, government of consequences of mass exodus.

A federal government commitment to flood-proof Queensland’s Bruce Highway is being predictably hailed by the Campbell Newman government.

Parking spaces for vessels the size of office blocks are getting harder to find in the Harbour City, thanks to a low hanging Harbour Bridge and a strong Navy presence.

A drive by Prime Minister Tony Abbott to foster greater economic development in the top of the continent through a White Paper on Northern Australia has been welcomed by Queensland councils, who hope it will produce better infrastructure and minimise regulatory overheads.

Bluster over APS industrial negotiations and pay rises has officially hit fever pitch after the government calculated pay rises in terms of job cuts.

Public submissions normally collated and published online by the government have been dispensed with before the Budget.

Eric Abetz and Tony Abbott have dispensed with the niceties in the renegotiation of the APS’s main industrial instrument warning bureaucrats to either agree to a pay freeze or cop a haircut on leave entitlements.