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Chris Minns has vowed quality will not be compromised as the construction sector delivers new homes for NSW at the pace and scale needed.

Unveiling the Labor’s second tranche of industrial relations, Tony Burke paid tribute to the overtime and dedication of the APS.

Monitoring, reporting of air and water systems to manage the Legionnaires’ bacteria is not sufficient, says report tabled to parliament.

Australia’s top cyber security agency is warning domestic businesses to up the ante in monitoring for cyberattacks from Russia.

The entire federal public sector is supposed to be on the cusp of a new era in information management defined by interoperability, following the earlier shift to mostly digital record-keeping, but the auditor-general reports the process has fallen behind schedule.

Department of Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo made it very clear he has no intention of setting new performance targets for processing citizenship applications, as he explained to a Senate committee why he refused to accept an auditor-general’s recommendation.

Leaders at the top level of the Australian Public Service will soon have a go-to list of executive coaches, and separately, foreign aid officials are putting together a panel of consultants to support them and other agencies with policy design, review, monitoring and evaluation.

The federal government has finally published a long-awaited evaluation report on the special work-for-the-dole scheme for remote communities, but it’s unclear where it fits into the policy process.