Latest news: Public service

Canberra is a public service town with attitude – even our PM and Federal Arts Minister rock out – and this Sunday, public servants are swapping lanyards for leathers at the Department of Rock grand final at Smith’s Alternative.

Women working in the Federal public service earn on average 86 cents for every dollar men earn, according to a new report by Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). This equates to women earning...

A bill to amend the Public Service Act 1999 has passed the Senate, and the government has boosted funding for financial counselling services.

A brand-new competition is calling on musically inclined public servants to share their skills and battle it out for the top spot in Dept of Rock.

A public service audit has found the workforce under the previous government was 37 per cent larger than initially reported.

The federal government is launching a review of public sector board appointments to ensure they are based on merit rather than politics and "jobs for mates".

A senior ACT public servant apparently could not remember reporting maladministration, corruption, or fraud as required under law.

The expansion of national security agencies announced in this year’s Budget may result in an increase in the Australian Public Service, ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr believes – but he is concerned about plans to move APS agencies out of Canberra.

The Greens say the Morrison Government’s “ideological mission” has seriously undermined the Australian Public Service, after the second interim report from the Select Committee on Job Security was released on Tuesday (19...

One hundred new, temporary, casual jobs will be created within the ACT Public Service following another expansion of the Jobs for Canberrans Fund.