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The public service has been asked to find $600 million in their budgets over the next four years. But job losses have been kept at a minimum, governance expert Stephen Bartos reports.

Women are missing from some of our most important policy-making agencies, with real consequences for economic policy. Treasury, at least, is trying to improve.

The banks have handed some ad revenue to the national newspapers but things still look grim for them on the revenue front.

The federal government has severed its job advertising relationship with newspapers, moving recruitment ads fully online. It could cost media companies dearly.

James Button has responded to criticism from the Public Service Commissioner, insisting his book on life in the Prime Minister’s Office was “written with ethical considerations in mind”.

The Business Council’s proposals for rpublic sector reform are a bizarre throwback to the “Rip Van Winkle” years. Perhaps Jennifer Westacott is annoyed the reform she wants isn’t being taken up.

Despite the doom and gloom, some see a bright future for public servants — if they’re prepared to embrace new ways of doing business.

A Crikey analysis had found 38,000 public service job cuts have been announced at the federal and state levels over the past few years. Here’s where the axe has fallen, state-by-state …

Labor apparently has a bad relationship with business. But what exactly does that mean, and why do voters not have a problem with it?

Tony Abbott’s promise to slash red tape is a time-honoured Canberra ritual, but it’s a hollow promise. And he should shake up his front bench to inject more policy nous into the mix.

Since 1990, the Australian Public Service has become more top-heavy, with a growing and male-dominated senior executive service and a corresponding reduction in the lower employment bands, writes Dr James Whelan, the public service program research director at the Centre for Policy Development

The public policy process has changed significantly in recent years, but not in the way our most prominent rentseeker claims.

Terry Moran leaves behind a healthier, more independent public service — but the GFC was his key test.

A senior public servant has called for the public service to stop being so “docile” and start asserting itself more in the national interest — and given a backhander to ministerial staff along the way.

The ANAO’s report on the Green Loans program is as bad as it gets and raises significant questions for the Public Service.

The first was a fundamental rule that every public servant must live and breathe: that your personal views must be strictly separate from your professional conduct.