Efficiency Dividend is inefficient: Danger of waste on the way to a surplus. Download ‘Beyond the Blunt Instrument: The Efficiency Dividend and its alternatives’ Jennifer Doggett’s paper from the Centre for Policy… more
Efficiency dividend
International public sector convention 2013 | Brisbane, 20–22 February
Innovation, Infrastructure, Inspiration 20–22 February 2013 | Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Queensland For more information visit www.cpaaustralia.com.au/ipsc CPD Research Director Christopher Stone will address this international conference on the topic… more
PUBLIC SERVICE IN THE NEWS | Evidence mounts against the efficiency dividend
Agency staff report increased mistakes > A NEW survey reveals that more than 50 per cent of staff from agencies including Centrelink, Medicare and the Child support agency are reporting… more
James Whelan | Public Service Race to the Bottom
This article was first published on ABC’s The Drum here. The Gillard Government’s announcement last week to cut public sector spending by $1.5 billion is unwise fiscal policy, out of step with community attitudes and… more
James Whelan | Hard to Know Where the Axe Will Fall
The public service is a political victim in an economic debate obsessed with racing to a surplus. When Wayne Swan delivered his mini-budget last week, he announced a further 2.5%… more
James Whelan & Jennifer Doggett | Bean Counting is Compromising our Public Services
Can arbitrary cuts under the guise of efficiency deliver a better public service? James Whelan & Jennifer Doggett take a look at the political and policy failure that is the Efficiency… more
Jennifer Doggett: Bean counters’ diet that is starving us all
Jennifer Doggett, the author of our new paper, ‘Beyond the Blunt Instrument: the Efficiency Dividend and its alternatives’ writes about her findings in the Public Sector Informant in the Canberra Times. After 20 years of… more
Beyond the Blunt Instrument: the Efficiency Dividend and its alternatives | OCCASIONAL PAPER
Efficiency Dividend is inefficient: Danger of waste on the way to a surplus. Download ‘Beyond the Blunt Instrument: The Efficiency Dividend and its alternatives’ Jennifer Doggett’s paper from the Centre for Policy… more