Tag: David Thodey

APS review response ‘totally inadequate’: Labor

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Opposition has labelled the government response to the Thodey review of the public sector as “weak” and “inadequate”, with key recommendations like the scrapping of the staffing cap...

Digital disruption the APS should have seen

Posted on   |  by Simon Bush
Canberra’s mandarins must be going into Christmas wondering what just happened; major departments have disappeared (merged) and secretaries sacked with more changes to come. However, the signposts were there...

Gov’t responds to Thodey review

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has earmarked $15 million to pay for a rapid planning phase to transform the public sector as part of its response to the landmark Thodey review,...

APS shake-up outside Thodey Review

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A department secretary has contradicted Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s claim that the recent major shake-up of the public service was in-line with the Thodey review, as the government prepares...

When Mr Nadella went to Canberra

Posted on   |  by James Riley
AI ethics is the new frontier when it comes to policies, guidelines or regulation. But the first thing we must look at when it comes to AI is how...

Data61 and the new CSIRO role

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s home-grown technology sector is half the size of our global peers as a percentage of gross domestic product, four times smaller than the US (as a percentage of...

Tech precinct plan heads to Cabinet

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is more than a year since Premier Gladys Berejiklian stood with Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar in Sydney to unveil the city’s ambition to build an innovation and technology...

David Thodey on the science of growth

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO chairman David Thodey has cautioned government and business alike against tightening research and innovation budgets in the face of Australia’s somewhat anaemic economic outlook. After the 27 years...

What happened to Jobs for NSW?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The future of direction of the NSW government’s startup and SME-focused industry development body Jobs for NSW remains up in the air five months after the re-election of the...