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This Month

AEC boss Tom Rogers

Election boss Tom Rogers on how social media changed democracy

The Australian Electoral Commissioner, fresh from delivering the Voice referendum, explains why taking risks and having a crack is the best career advice.

  • Ronald Mizen

How consulting made Blair Comley a better public servant

The incoming Health Department boss has helped reform the GST, design Kevin Rudd’s carbon reduction scheme and Julia Gillard’s carbon tax. He answers our public servant Q&A.

  • Ronald Mizen
Tax Inspector-General and Tax Ombudsman Karen Payne.

Meet the top tax bureaucrat who can’t stand liars

Tax Inspector-General and Tax Ombudsman Karen Payne talks about what big law can teach the APS and her love of Ennio Morricone, in our public servant Q&A.

  • Ronald Mizen

September

How the 80:20 rule makes Danielle Wood more productive

The incoming boss shares her defining career moments, best advice, love of authors Anna Funder and Zadie Smith and her plans for change in our public servant Q&A.

  • Ronald Mizen

Why being a nurse and working for Kevin Rudd changed Steven Kennedy

The Treasury Secretary shares his defining career moments, best advice, love for alternative Australian music from the 1980s in our public servant Q&A.

  • Ronald Mizen