Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPicking the Scab of Recruitment - Part 1 'The Applicant'
Season 3 Episode 5
Drawing on overwhelming feedback from our listeners, in this episode we unpack the experience of being recruited into the public sector (or ghosted a…
1 year, 2 months ago
Oakden aged care scandal part 3 - “Boss on the floor” … or, how bad things stayed secret
Season 3 Episode 4
How did the abuse at Oakden remain hidden for so long? And what finally brought it to light?
In this episode we discuss:
why families might not complai…1 year, 2 months ago
REDUX - What the NACC is going on? Updates on Robodebt and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC)
Season 3 Episode 3
In light of this week's decision that the NACC will pursue investigations into six public officials, we thought we would repost this episode from Dec…
1 year, 3 months ago
Oakden aged care scandal part 2 - there’s no $$$ in limbo
Season 3 Episode 2
For over a decade, the state government vacillated about whether or not to privatise the Oakden Older Persons Mental Health Facility.
Once the 2007 ac…
1 year, 3 months ago
Oakden aged care scandal part 1 - good in a crisis (...bad on the follow through)
Season 3 Episode 1
We return for 2025 with a series on the Oakden Older Persons Mental Health Facility, an SA Government run facility whose scandalous conditions and in…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ask a Secretary! Mike Kaiser (former) head of the Department of Premier and Cabinet (Qld)
Season 2 Episode 23
What do Secretaries really think when junior staff ask for career advice? Why are silos so impermeable? And should Christmas really be cancelled? Joi…
1 year, 4 months ago
Mike Kaiser, former DG of Department of Premier and Cabinet (Qld)
Season 2 Episode 22
Mike Kaiser, recently departed head of the Queensland Public Service, joins us to chat about the interface between political offices and the public s…
1 year, 4 months ago
The State of the Service - drawing the threads from Coombs to Thodey to where we are now
Season 2 Episode 22
Danielle unpacks the recently released APS State of the Service, with a look over our should at where we’ve come from - from the 1976 Coombs Royal Co…
1 year, 5 months ago
What the NACC is going on? Updates on Robodebt and the National Anti-Corruption Commission
Season 2 Episode 21
Keeping track of the National Anti-Corruption Commission and Robodebt is tricky - first there's no investigation, then there's some kind of review, t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mr Bates v Post Office part 8 - ‘The One Where The Report is a Slide Deck’
Season 2 Episode 20
Post Office’s internal inquiries never got to the bottom of the situation. Here we unpack how to choose an investigator, getting the information to t…
1 year, 6 months ago