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BOSS this week met with boardroom heavyweights from some of our largest companies around the country who warned the economy is in “very mixed” shape.

'We still have nothing to show for it,' Mr Shorten said of the mechanism.

How bureaucrats are retooling services for the public will dominate The Australian Financial Review Government Services Summit next week.

The Commonwealth public service has agreed generous work from home rights, with no caps on WFH days and a bias towards approving requests.

Drury will remain an advisor to the board and Xero's CEO.

Ramsay Health Care shares are up by 5.47% this afternoon after announcing the reconsideration of selling its Asian joint venture Sime Darby Health Care which was previously scrapped in September last year.

After nine years as chairman, Michael Siddle will exit the role but intends to remain on the board as a non-executive director.

Last year talks fell over for the sale of Sime Darby to IHH Healthcare Berhad, which had pitched an indicative proposal of some $US1.35 billion.

The proposed changes work to 'restore' the APS, the minister says.

The Australian government is to establish a new centre for policy evaluation to help it understand what works in policy delivery, and what can work better.