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Holgate the latest outsider spat out by public service politics Share Drive into a public service car park in Canberra and you won’t find many Porsches. The occasional compact Audi and plenty of small, mid-tier Hondas and Mazdas. Senior public servants are paid well by community standards, but the culture is one of modesty, parsimony and of not displaying your wealth. Former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate admitted the granting of the luxury watches failed the pub test when she resigned in November. On Tuesday, in a searing take-no-prisoners testimony, she conceded perhaps she should h...

The United States Post Office has just announced the 33rd stamp in its literary arts series – a striking image of novelist and essayist Ursula Le Guin. Behind the portrait is artwork depicting a scene from The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin’s 1969 novel. It features the Gethenians, a species which is generically asexual, but randomly become male or female during estrus. Le Guin predicted such a society would avoid any gender-specific roles and invent shared ways to raise children. The radical premise of the novel is captured in its best-known line – the king was pregnant. Such an idea ...

Advertisement The NSW government spent more than $90 million last year outsourcing work to the private sector — almost $10 million more than was paid to consultants before the state posted a record deficit. NSW Labor analysis shows the government poured almost $93 million into the “big four” consultancies — KPMG, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Treasurer Dominic Perrottet says consultants are needed for the size, scale and complexity of some work undertaken in NSW. Credit:Louise Kennerley The consultancy work includes $7.5 million award...

Interconnected structures and processes of government is critical for leadership to shift the needle and make substantial change.

Abolition of stamp duty would surge home sales by 50pc: NSW Treasury Share Property sales could surge by an extra 100,000 transactions each year in NSW if the government follows through on its proposal to abolish stamp duty, new analysis by the state Treasury estimates. Large stamp duty charges on real estate purchases deter people from moving to more suitable homes and closer to jobs, including older people who could potentially downsize and free up larger houses for growing families. Dominic Perrottet says paying stamp duty every time a home is bought ties people down and limits mobility. ...