Treasury is trusting banks' big digital promises a lot less these days. This includes not prematurely junking legacy systems.

The Reserve Bank's surcharge ban plan could streamline charging frameworks and ease compliance headaches for agencies.

Hosting COP31 means proving we can deliver climate results, not just summits. Smart AI deployment might be the edge -- if we ...

Tina Latif is the founder and managing director of 2030 Ventures and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She ...

Tasmania’s parliamentary gridlock is testing the limits of convention, and the role of the governor is evolving in response.

Join us for this free webinar when senior Mandarin journalist Julian Bajkowski will discuss with Services Australia CEO David Hazlehurst the mega agency’s recent performance and its four-year plan to ...

Glyn Davis says Australia ranks eighth globally for public service effectiveness -- thanks to routines, federalism and a taste for evidence.

State-employed lawyers are broadly underwhelmed by cookie-cutter policy, with the PSA challenging Legal Aid’s remote work clampdown.

Court backs DSS use of tax data to pursue paused welfare debts, drawing a legal line between robodebt and evidence-based recovery.

Crime fighting is taking a backseat as Queensland police are left propping up other agencies. A blunt review urges urgent reform.

Canada’s public sector is facing its largest retrenchment since 1995, with AI and attrition not being enough to save 40,000 jobs.

The RBA’s quiet retreat from surcharging confirms what many suspected -- markets move faster than nudges, and the banks know it.