3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (208+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Rebecca Fawcett will succeed Melissa Donnelly as national secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). The CPSU’s governing council in Adelaide unanimously agreed to the appointment this week…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (202+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. A former defence bureaucrat has taken to social media, urging current public servants to answer questions “openly and simply” in committee hearings to earn and keep greater respect. Founder of…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (226+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The Western Australian government has settled a framework for the next round of public sector enterprise agreements. Under the updated wages policy, the government will negotiate 49 agreements with its roughly…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (216+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. A special investigation into the Department of Communities and Justice’s (DCJ) handling of welfare reports found the department has been determining before some children are born that they will be…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (209+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. A NSW Health worker engaged in serious corrupt conduct, according to the state’s anti-corruption watchdog. NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC NSW) Operation Tivoli found that NSW Health worker Zoran…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (230+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The 2027 Western Australian digital public sector graduate program has opened for applications. Led by the Office of Digital Government, the whole-of-government program is open to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (353+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Tensions about population diversity are now a daily part of our news media diet. It’s not just in Australia. From recent European elections that pitted far-right anti-immigration nationalists against more…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (213+ words) A leading think tank has told Treasury that the major accounting firms should be regulated like corporations and that their audit and consulting divisions should be split. The Australia Institute has released its submission to Treasury’s options paper on changing…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (139+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. An attempt by the New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice to push a turnkey corporate reform process onto beleaguered frontline child protection and permanent care staff has come undone, after…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (195+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. There was little in the data that policymakers did not already know. Save 50% on your first year of unlimited access. Renews at $440/year thereafter. Cancel anytime. Dr Kate Robinson is an author…...