Workplace culture
Perspective
Public service
‘Highly engaged’: Meet the happiest public servants in Queensland
Staff in this department feel “energised” by work, but also complain the most about long hours. Meanwhile, an expert shares tips for work happiness – and bean bags aren’t the answer.
- by Felicity Caldwell
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Opinion
Lehrmann trial
The calamitous Lehrmann trial is a gift to #MeToo critics
Everyone has a view on this controversial case. But let’s not forget the facts about sexual assault.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Opinion
Work therapy
Complain about the complaint system, but it’s progress
Instead of having a quick chat with the hospital director, medical specialists now face complaints via a formal online process. It may be anxiety-inducing, but it’s best practice.
- by Jonathan Rivett
How the Lehrmann saga damaged everyone
The Sofronoff board of inquiry into the trial of Bruce Lehrmann scuffed the reputations of all involved, including its chair.
- by Angus Thompson
Crossbench dilemma solved as David Van assigned his seat
Van, planning to return to the upper house next week, will sit as far away as possible from his accuser, fellow independent Lidia Thorpe.
- by James Massola and Angus Thompson
Tread carefully when jumping to judgment at work
It might be fun to laugh about office ‘clowns’ but there’s not that many outright incompetents going around.
- by Jonathan Rivett
‘It was hell’: Former Sydney hospital doctor speaks out
Dr Matthew Isfahani says his workload as a junior doctor at Concord and Canterbury hospitals left him and his family at breaking point.
- by Angus Thomson
Headphone dependency is muting the office buzz
Instead of the industrious buzz of work conversation and banter, there now reigns an eerily muted soundscape of tapping keyboards, the metallic fizz of headphone overspill, and disjointed fragments of video calls.
- by Jane Shilling
Opinion
Gender equality
When will things improve for women in parliament? They already have
Parliament still has a poisonous legacy for women, but enduring change is now locked in. There is no going back.
- by Licia Heath
Top prosecutor mulled charging Lehrmann himself, inquiry told
Evidence presented to an inquiry into Bruce Lehrmann’s criminal trial says the ACT’s Director of Public Prosecutions pondered circumventing police.
- by Angus Thompson
Van’s salary cut, parliamentary workplace safety agency delayed until October
Independent MP Kylea Tink says she is concerned at the length of time it is taking to establish a new parliamentary workplace safety agency.
- by James Massola, David Crowe and Angus Thompson