Chief Minister Gallagher has come to the conclusion that an election year is no time to be spending half a billion dollars on a new monument to the power and glory of the ACT Government. Instead the money will go into the beloved health system:
The Chief Minister and Minister for Health, Katy Gallagher, and the [...]

Chief Minister Gallagher has the exciting news that Woden’s Callum Offices Shared Services staff have been chosen to be the long promised Gungahlin penal battalion of the ACT Public Service:
“In May last year, the Government announced we would move 500 staff to Gungahlin,” Ms Gallagher said.
“Today we have announced those staff will be from Shared [...]

Andrew Barr is asking for registrations of interest from builders to construct the bold edifice that will house the Gungahlin Penal Battallion.
This office building, to be located on either government or privately owned land in Gungahlin, will accommodate approximately 500 ACT Government staff, provide requisite parking spaces and be built to contemporary environmental sustainability [...]

Just wondering if anyone had accurate figures on how many ACT public servants there are?
I heard a rumour of 18,000?????
That’s 1/20th of the population involved in administering the population if its accurate.  That sounds super crazy to me, any ideas people of the interwebs?

Andrew Barr is enjoying some gamesmanship having lured the Liberals out to oppose the building of ACT Public Service offices in Gungahlin (a Labor campaign promise swimming the wrong way from the construction of the pleasure dome.
Today I gave Mr Seselja and the Canberra Liberals the chance to vote in support of our determination to [...]

Andrew Barr has announced the engagement of Cox Architects to advise on how to implement an ACT Government office building in Gungahlin:
They will identify:
– a suitable site in Gungahlin for a 7,000 m2 office building and associated parking – either government or privately owned;
– the most appropriate procurement process to ensure the best outcome for [...]

The Economic Development Directorate is making the case for a large office building to envelop all the minions of the ACT Government:
The building will allow for more efficient and integrated service delivery to the Canberra community. Many existing Government buildings are old and cannot be brought up to today’s standards, even with a significant [...]

On Friday the Canberra Times dropped a bombshell with a savage attack on the operation of the ACT Government by the Ombudsman Allan Asher.
The public service watchdog has slammed the ACT Government for ignoring Canberrans’ complaints, saying it prefers to spend ”millions on consultants’ advice” than listen to the people it serves.
ACT Ombudsman Allan [...]

The Greens’ Shane Rattenbury has expressed delight that the gang gang logo for the Parks and Conservation service.
But he goes on to make the dangerous suggestion that trained and experienced nature conservation managers might be well suited to having some input into the workings of the new Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate.
The Greens [...]

Chief Minister Katy Gallagher has announced the thrilling news that slaray packaging of bus fares is kicking off for the ACT PS from 1 June 2011.
From 1 June 2011 the ACT Government will provide ACT Public Service employees and their families an incentive to get on the bus and reduce their travel costs with [...]

Chief Minister Stanhope is addressing the sole specific Liberal complaint about his 2011 budget, the planned half billion dollar construction of a mega office to house the entire ACT Public Service (less the penal battalion to be exiled to Gungahlin).
“Compared to all other viable options for meeting the Government’s accommodation needs, the new office block [...]

Following on from Andrew Barr’s tweet based announcement the Chief Minister has now published a media release on the subject.
“The ACT Government will establish a presence in Gungahlin by moving 500 public servants to a new Government office block that will be built in the region’s town centre,” Chief Minister and Minister for Land and [...]

In our brave new world of Governance by Twat, Andrew Barr has briefly mentioned he’s shipping 500 ACT Public Service jobs to Gungahlin.
One wonders who has so displeased the Government as to deserve such a fate?

ABC reports that former Defence chief Dr Allan Hawke’s review into the ACT Public Service is complete, and that significant changes may be on their way. Or not (Stanhope stated he hadn’t finished reading the full report, but he felt compelled to make a media announcement nonetheless).
Stanhope is quoted as follows:
“Change is confronting to [...]

An anonymous tipster has let us know that the submissions for the review into the ACT Public Service are now online.
Nice to see the Community Alliance Party still getting involved.

It was 3 September when Jon Stanhope announced the Hawke review into the ACT Public Service.
Today Zed Seselja has responded.
(Any other opposition leader I’ve covered in well over a decade in this game would have responded the same day, at worst the next, but Zed’s a bit special)
He’s not a fan:
“The reality is that this [...]

Following last week’s announcement of a heavy hitting review of the poorly performed ACT Public Service the ABC has a story on Dr Allan Hawke’s efforts to soothe the nerves of the pubes union CPSU:
Dr Hawke says his review will not lead to job cuts.
“It’s about how they deliver best policy advice to their ministers [...]

An increasingly exasperated Chief Minister has announced that he’s sending Allan Hawke in to clean up the ACT Public Service.
Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said the Government wanted to be sure that the configuration of the public sector remained appropriate for meeting the broad-ranging needs of government and to deliver on the Government’s agenda for the [...]

Chief Minister Stanhope has announced an agreement on ACT Public Service Pay.
The in-principle agreement is based upon the Government’s final wage offer, providing for a 2.5% salary increase from 1 July 2010 and a common nominal expiry date of 30 June 2011 for the agreements. The Government has also offered a sign-on bonus of [...]

The ABC has a story on shifting ground in the pay dispute between the ACT Government and its public service.
The Government is now offering a 2.5 per cent wage increase from July 1 as part of a one year agreement.
It is also offering a sign-on bonus of $650 for eligible employees.
Apparently the union thinks [...]

The Canberra Times brings word of a breakdown in negotiations between the ACT’s public sector employees and the Stanhope Government.
A 4.75% raise over two years is apparently not enough and they’re off to Fair Work Australia.

Hello Riot Act. Long time reader, first time poster. I have a small question and thought someone on here might have a sensible answer.
How does one officially complain about the actions of a Senior ACT public servant?
Several of my friends have children with Disabilities and are dependant on the Government for funding.
The problem [...]

The trouble with the ACT Government is that no believable work of fiction could equal what goes on in there.
Today the Canberra Times brings word that Mark Vincent Blattman has been sentenced to “212″ years in prison (I suspect they mean 2 1/2) for growing 75 marijuana plants in Sutton.
The court heard Blattman had [...]