Australian Public Service Commission

The caravan incident was a bomb hoax in Durrell, NSW, that highlighted the risks of information barriers between security officials and contributed to the government's decision to move the AFP and ASIO back to Home Affairs.

Home Affairs and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations referred to this masthead's questions to the Australian Public Service Commission, whose spokesperson declined to comment.

A handful of other major functions, such as energy and digital policy, have moved departments twice in the past decade.

and that was Mogged Again, Teams on the Move Revealed by Zach Braxton-Smith.

The same trend was identified for the National Disability Insurance Agency and Home Affairs.

In April 26, the Australian Public Service Commission got ministerial approval to remove formal reduction targets and public progress updates for 26-27, sunsetting the policy's main enforcement mechanism as 62 agencies exempted themselves by declaring they had minimal to no core outsourcing work remaining.

Four departments, Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Infrastructure and Prime Minister and Cabinet, set no insourcing targets for 25-26.

However, education and infrastructure had increased their contractor spending in 24-25 by $7.4 million and $8.5 million respectively.

Finance and Public Sector Minister Katie Gallagher said, I encourage the union to continue negotiating.

Australian Public Service Commission Chief Negotiator Alison Stott, who is leading the Commonwealth's negotiations, will next meet with unions on October 6.

Home Affairs Secretary Stephanie Foster said, has explained why she and fellow agency heads are pushing to ban video footage from parliamentary hearings being edited and shared on social media, a move that's been slammed as an affront to democracy.

The Secretary's Board, chaired by Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretary Stephen Kennedy, called for the ban in a recent parliamentary submission, complaining bureaucrats are being subjected to ridicule, hostility and abuse online.

Just this week, the Australian government announced that it's considering restrictions on camera-equipped smart glasses across Commonwealth government workplaces.

Public Service Minister Katie Gallagher has asked the Australian Public Service Commission for advice on whether the devices should be prohibited, and importantly, what exemptions might be necessary.

You know, we've got to know about this.

We keep coming back to the same complication.

The Albanese government wants to ban the use of so-called smart glasses in the Australian public service in a move that would be a global first.

Finance and Public Service Minister Katie Gallagher is seeking advice from the Australian Public Service Commission on options to ban or restrict glasses the use of glasses capable of recording amid growing privacy and security concerns.

Now, this is really an interesting play here by the government.

They love a ban, don't they? They love to ban things.

Former CPSU Secretary Melissa Donnelly was last month appointed to lead the Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU, replacing Sally McManus as the leader of the nation's union movement.

Unions are holding twice-weekly meetings with the Commonwealth's lead negotiator, the Australian Public Service Commission's Alison Stott, to discuss a raft of claims, including leave entitlements, public holidays, job security, flex time and the right to disconnect.

Ms Fawcett led the CPSU's negotiations in the first round of APS-wide bargaining.

When the union secured flexible work and working from home rights, 18 weeks paid parental leave for both parents, new leave entitlements, stronger consultation rights, a 25% casual loading and pay increases including for the lowest paid APS workers.