The increasing complexity of contemporary policy problems coupled with rising public expectations present unprecedented challenges to the capacity of governments to make and implement effective polici...

Australian and New Zealand public servants are invited to take a survey as part of a new project examining innovation skills and capabilities within the public sector.  ...

Picking up everything and moving from South Australia to the ACT is no easy decision. But when Dan Croucher made the move to Canberra, for a role in the Federal Gov...

It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that Queensland statistician Penelope Marshall was top of her class for marks in the subject Delivering public value when she c...

ANZSOG alumni members were among the latest Australians recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list announced on Monday. Craig Hamilton AM, Kirstine Harv...

By Professor Janine O’Flynn  This is an edited version of an article that first appeared on the Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victoria)’s new website ‘T...

Sonja Cox takes the responsibility of being a public servant extremely seriously. “I see myself as working for the community so when they’re footing the bill for my salary and my development, the...

It’s probably overstating it to say that when Fiona Blair joined ANZSOG’s prestigious Executive Fellow Program (EFP) in 2018, she was a woman on a mission, but she definitely k...

Debates around public policy focus too much on failure, and do not recognise the lasting value that governments can deliver the public through innovative policy reform. The new ANZSOG/ANU Press book ...

By Professor Michael Mintrom  New Zealand’s first ‘Wellbeing Budget’ was delivered last week by the Minister of Finance, Hon Grant Robertson. It is the second budget of Prime Minister Jaci...

The public’s demands on regulators are growing and a shift to risk-based regulation and the recognition of the importance of skilled “regulatory craftsmanship” can help them meet these demands, ...

The APS has the opportunity to “Indigenise” the Public Service Act 1999 to reinforce cultural changes and actions aimed at recruiting and retaining Indigeno...