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The 2025 Don Dunstan Oration: Innovation, Change and Capability in Public Life

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Is paradoxical leadership the competency we need now, more than ever?

A group of New Zealand researchers have examined how paradoxical leadership contributes to public administration employee resilience. Dr Esme Franken and Dr Geoff Plimmer from the Victoria University of Wellington, and Associate Professor Sanna Malinen from the University of...

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Looking back at ‘Public Administration Today’

Public Administration Today (Today) was a quarterly publication for IPAA members, which served as a national communications medium for all IPAA members. It aimed to report IPAA activities, promote and celebrate achievements in Australian public sector management, disseminate information...

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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Update

In line with the latest advice from government and health authorities, IPAA SA has suspended our face-to-face delivery of professional development programs and events to reduce the risk to our staff, facilitators, partner organisations and particularly our members, many...

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Core People Practices and Supplier Expo

A Core People Practices and Supplier Expo that linked a panel of Group training Organisations  (GTOs) with agency representatives was held recently. The Expo, which supported the Skilling SA Public Sector Project was an initiative of the Commissioner for...

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Reflecting On ‘The Ethics Of Public Office’

As the Australian Government edges closer to releasing a bill for the establishment of a Commonwealth Integrity Commission, it seems timely to look back at what a former Governor-General — the Hon. Sir John Kerr KCMG KStJ QC —...

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Latest AJPA release: Academics ask ‘ is gender really on anyone’s agenda?’

The December 2019 issue of The Australian Journal of Public Administration published a ‘controversy’ written by Linda Colley (School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University) and Sue Williamson (School of Business, UNSW Canberra) called The Review of the APS: Is gender...

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