All posts tagged "Australian Public Service"
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Australian tax agency to implement audit report’s recommendations on AI governance
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has agreed to join up its automation and AI strategies, clarify communication around accountability, and review risk controls, following an audit on AI governance at
- Posted March 4, 2025
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Report finds Australian Public Service making ‘significant’ progress on gender equality
The Australian Public Service (APS) has made “significant gains” towards gender equality but there is still more to do, according to a new report. The interim evaluation covers two years
- Posted February 6, 2025
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Australian Public Service to release digital workforce plan in 2025
The Australian Public Service (APS) plans to release a strategy next year for attracting and retaining digital talent in the government workforce. Speaking after the publication of the APS’s 2024
- Posted December 18, 2024
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Australian government workers save an hour a day in large generative AI trial
Australian public servants who took part in a six-month trial of generative AI reported that it saved them an average of an hour a day. The trial made Microsoft 365
- Posted November 20, 2024
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Public service jobs ‘front and centre’ in Australian election contest, says minister
Investment in the government workforce is critical to delivering high-quality public services and proposed job cuts by the opposition Coalition would “devastate communities nationwide” and “cripple essential services”, Australia’s minister
- Posted November 7, 2024
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US government employee burnout ‘stubbornly high’, EU establishes AI Office: news in brief
Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence In this edition: 41% of US government workers report burnout Burnout among US government employees has dropped from 47% but
- Posted June 20, 2024
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Government urged to ‘embrace AI’ or miss historic opportunity, UK’s cybersecurity agency boosts support ahead of election: news in brief
Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence In this edition: Government urged to ‘embrace AI or miss the most exciting time to govern’ The UK government could
- Posted May 23, 2024
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Australian public servants granted ‘right to disconnect’ but with exceptions, says minister
Officials working for Australia’s federal government will have the ‘right to disconnect’ in six months’ time, unless their contract explicitly states otherwise, minister for the public service Katy Gallagher has
- Posted February 20, 2024
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Digital transformation and maintaining public service legitimacy: the best of Global Government Forum’s 2023 interviews and features
The latest of Global Government Forum 2023 roundups shares our most-read interviews and in-depth coverage of the year Covering everything from US federal CIO Clare Martorana’s insights into how to
- Posted December 27, 2023
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From AI fears to public service strikes on pay: Global Government Forum’s top news stories of 2023
After another busy year for public servants, these are some of GGF’s top news stories from the last 12 months This year was one where great expectations and anxieties around
- Posted December 26, 2023