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One job, two bosses: inside the management shake up at DCCEEW (opens the original)
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As if one boss wasn't enough, a major government agency is making its staff report to two or more deputy secretaries at the same time. It's part of a bid to stop the embarrassing mistakes that come from bureaucratic silos, in what has become one of the most diverse and politically charged portfolios in the Australian Public Service. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) secretary Mike Kaiser said it felt like "an act of insurgency" when he suggested staff shoul
APS experiment: here's why this secretary is making workers report to more bosses (opens the original)
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As if one boss wasn't enough, a major government agency is making its staff report to two or more deputy secretaries at the same time. It's part of a bid to stop the embarrassing mistakes that come from bureaucratic silos, in what has become one of the most diverse and politically charged portfolios in the Australian Public Service. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) secretary Mike Kaiser said it felt like "an act of insurgency" when he suggested staff shoul
Waiting on a Veterans Affairs claim? This bottleneck isn't going away (opens the original)
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One of the biggest roadblocks between veterans and vital financial, health and wellbeing support is no closer to being resolved, a report has shown, two years on from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. Defence failed to meet its five-business-day target for about 650 urgent information requests from Veterans' Affairs in 2025-26, for claims involving financial hardship, risks of mental health issues, serious injury or death. That's according to the latest annual report from th
'Churn comes at a cost': the most-MoG'ed government teams revealed (opens the original)
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It's a pain to update your email address and rebrand documents, but spare a thought for the workers who have had to change office and overhaul their IT and payroll when the government of the day launches reforms. Not to mention the taxpayer, who forks out thousands of dollars each time public servants move from one department to another in machinery of government (MoG) changes. A Canberra Times analysis has revealed the most MoG'd functions in the Australian public service over the past decade,
MoG'ed again: these teams moved agency three times in four years (opens the original)
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It's a pain to update your email address and rebrand documents, but spare a thought for the workers who have had to change office and overhaul their IT and payroll when the government of the day launches reforms. Not to mention the taxpayer, who forks out thousands of dollars each time public servants move from one department to another in machinery of government (MoG) changes. A Canberra Times analysis has revealed the most MoG'd functions in the Australian public service over the past decade,
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