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The evaluation involved a desktop review and interviews with selected stakeholders of the NWA program. Documents for the desktop review were provided by OfW and included grant administration documents, funding agreements, activity work plans,…
Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012
Summary of WGEA Review recommendations
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1. Make it easier for employers to report to WGEA and improve collection and sharing of gender data…
Australian Government agencies maintain capabilities to operationalise their designated roles under national plans. The Australian Government also maintains a number of capabilities to support whole of Afustralian Government and national…
What is a Long Term Insights Briefing?An opportunity for the APS to consider significant, cross-cutting and complex policy issues, and how they may affect Australia and the Australian community in the medium and long term.What did the Pilot LTIB do?…
Probation340. The probationary period for new employees is 6 months unless set out otherwise in the letter of offer or determined otherwise by the Delegate.Job SecurityCommitment to ongoing employment and rebuilding APS capacity341. The APS is a…
Anniversary messages are personal messages of congratulations from:the Prime Ministerthe Governor-GeneralHis Majesty The King.Messages are available to Australian citizens and permanent residents celebrating a significant birthday or wedding…
Access to services is a critical prerequisite for quality care and support. Australia has well-developed care and support systems compared to many nations, however inequities in access exist. In rural and remote areas and for First Nations…
The pandemic pushed our people, emergency response structures and communities to the limit and required rapid decision‑making in times of great uncertainty. Some critical gaps and lessons revealed in the health response to the pandemic can be…
Overall gender balance on government boardsThe existing targets for gender balance on government boards are:Women to hold 50% of all Australian Government board positionsWomen to hold at least 40% of Australian Government board…
The Australian Government is committed to gender responsive budgeting and putting gender equality and impacts on women at the centre of budget decision making. The resources on this page are designed to support the Australian Public Service to…
Our purpose (Corporate Plan 2024–25)To support the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and our portfolio ministers to improve the lives of all Australians, including through coordination of government activities and effective advice.Our outcome statement (…
Guiding recommendation: Ensure pandemic support measures include all residents, regardless of visa status, prioritise cohorts at greater risk, and include them in the design and delivery of targeted supports.The COVID‑19 pandemic…
Policy goal: secure, safe jobs with decent wages, conditions and opportunities for career developmentThe Australian Government is committed to boosting job security and wages and to creating safe, fair and productive workplaces. Our policy vision is…
How to use this guideThe APS Guide to Gender Analysis and Gender Impact Assessment (the Guide) provides information to assist Australian Public Service (APS) policy makers developing a Cabinet Submission or New Policy Proposal in fulfilling gender…
Figure 2. Phases of the Australian Government Crisis Management ContinuumThe Australian Government’s Crisis Management Continuum (Continuum) comprises 7 phases:Prevention refers to measures to eliminate or reduce the severity of a…
Recommendation 1 – Make it easier for employers to report to WGEA and improve collection and sharing of gender data
1.1 Improve the quality of data reported to WGEA, and reduce the regulatory burden for employers…
Care and support work has traditionally been undervalued. Submissions to the Employment White Paper from care and support sector services, worker representatives and community organisations emphasised that low social status, low pay, and persisting…
The Australian Government is committed to ensuring that Australians have good, secure jobs. It recently made job security a central objective of the Fair Work Act, the minimum wage objective and the modern awards objective.Job security is important…
Investigations, prosecutions, convictions and sentences imposed on traffickersAustralia's laws criminalising human trafficking and other forms of modern slavery are contained within Divisions 270 and 271 of the Criminal Code.The AFP receives human…
When the COVID‑19 pandemic emerged at the start of 2020, governments around the world were ill prepared to respond to the scale and duration of a crisis that had ramifications for our health systems, our economies and the very function of our…
The factors outlined in this paper impact us across the life course. They can be experienced in different ways at different times, and the impacts can accumulate over a life time.Financial insecurity, for example, can impact a woman’s decision or…
The structure of the Australian intelligence community
The organisational structure of the Australian Intelligence Community has been based upon two principles designed to ensure its integrity, objectivity and effectiveness:
The separation…
To find out more information about recipients of Australian honours, search the Australian honours database. There are options to perform a simple search based on name, announcement, medal/award type, or an advanced search which searches all the…
It is important to note that issues raised as part of the Review involve two distinct matters. The first relates to transfer of documents by PM&C to the NAA under section 27 of the Archives Act. The second relates to the public release of…
Heads of Agreement for Skills ReformThis Agreement is made between the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (Commonwealth) and NEW SOUTH WALES, VICTORIA, QUEENSLAND, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, the AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL…