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Commission reference archive
Documents in our reference archive are not considered to be current under the Public Service Act 1999 or have been replaced by more recent publications. They may provide good practice advice or serve as a historical reference point. Any use of the information contained in these documents should be done with caution.
A full list of all current operative publications and circulars — listed by subject matter heading — can be found on our employment policy page.
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| N | O | P, Q | R | S | T, U | V | W, X, Y, Z | 1999 inc. PS Act advices | <1999 | |||||||
Books, brochures and forms
A
- Achieving a harassment-free workplace: Implementing change No. 2 (1998)
- Achieving cost-effective personnel services (1996)
- Appointment and Probation: Essentials No.5 (1997)
- APS Conditions of Entry and Advancement - P.14 Gazette (1998)
- APS employment reform: Building on good practice (1998)
- APS employment reform: At a glance - a summary (1998)
- APS Statistical Bulletins
- APS Values and Standards of Conduct: Essentials No.3 (1997)
- Assessment of the Senior Executive Service in the APS - Renfrow report (1996)
- Average earnings in the public and private sectors (1996)
B
C
- Changing the APS workforce: A valuing diversity issue discussion paper (1997)
- Compendium of SES Fellowship Reports (1997)
- Conditions of entry and advancement (Periodic Gazette P14, 24 July 1998)
- Counselling for better work performance - Advice for managers (1997)
- Counselling for better work performance (2000)
D
- Delegations: Remaking of Public Service Commissioner delegations (1996) - includes Public Service Commissioner delegations chart
- Demographic and classification profile of the Australian Public Service: Trends and prospects (1996)
E
F
G, H
I, J, K
- Identified Position Guidelines - Essentials No. 4 (1997)
- Implementation of Equal Employment Opportunity in the APS 1994-95 (1996)
- Information for excess and surplus APS staff (1997)
L
M
- Maintaining a harassment-free workplace (2001)
- Management of excess staff situations in the APS (1997)
- Management response to allegations of paedophile activity within the Foreign Affairs Portfolio: Report to the Public Service Commissioner (1997)
- Managing breaches of the APS code of conduct (2000)
- Managing breaches of the APS code of conduct (2002)
- Managing poor performance: Essentials No. 1 (1996)
- Managing risk in the personnel processing system
- Managing Workplace Diversity guidelines (1998)
- Mcleod Report on the Review of the Public Service Act - Recommendations and Government response
- Mobility arrangements for officers of the APS and ACT Government Service (1995)
N
- Notification under Section 33A of the Public Service Act 1922 (1996)
- Notification under Section 82AD of the Public Service Act 1922 (1996)
O
- Outsourcing: Principles, guidelines and good practice (1996)
- Outsourcing: Human Resource Management Principles, Guidelines and Good Practice (1998)
- Outsourcing: Employment Framework for Information Technology (1998)
P, Q
- P.14 Gazette APS conditions of entry and advancement (1998)
- People and Performance in the APS: A Guide for Managers and Staff (1999)
- People planning in the APS: A preliminary report of the Strategic People Planning Project (1996)
- Performance appraisal - Strategies, options and practical advice (1996)
- Principles for managing studies assistance (1996)
- Public Interest Whistleblowing: Provisional advice to agencies No. 1 (1997)
- Public Interest Whistleblowing: Implementing change No. 1 (1998)
- Public Service Commissioner's annual reports
R
- Recruitment and selection: Essentials No. 2 (1996)
- Redeployment and Retirement framework: a summary (1996)
- Redeployment and Retirement Provisions (R&R Provisions) of the APS General Employment Conditions Award (1995)
- Re-engineering people management: from good intentions to good practice (1997)
- Review of the Public Service Act (McLeod report) (1996)
S
- (An assessment of the) Senior Executive Service in the Australian Public Service: A survey of it's officers - PSC Renfrow Survey Report (1996)
- SES Career Management: Advice for SES Officers - What happens if I'm displaced? pamphlet (1992)
- SES Fellowships compendium 1997
- SES Selections: Principles, guidelines and good practice (1995)
- State of the Service Reports
- Statistical overview of the Australian Public Service (1997)
- Study leave principles
- Summary of the Redeployment and Retirement framework
T, U
- Temporary employment (Interim) - Principles and guidelines (1995)
- The demographic and classification profile of the Australian Public Service: trends and prospects (1996)
- The leadership challenge for the Australian Public Service - The Kakabadse report
- Towards a best practice Australian Public Service - APS reform discussion paper
V
W, X, Y, Z
Management Advisory Board
Some of the following documents are not available electronically.
- Benchmarking: Improving Performance in the APS (1993)
- Beyond Bean Counting: Effective Financial Management in the APS - 1998 and Beyond (1997)
- No. 23 Before you sign the Dotted Line...Ensuring Contracts can be managed (1998)
- No. 22 Guidelines for Managing Risk in the Australian Public Service
- No. 21 Raising the Benchmarking: Benchmarking for Better Government
- No. 20 2 + 2 = 5: Innovative Ways of Organising People in the APS (1997)
- No. 19 Ethical Standards and Values in the APS (1996)
- No. 18 Achieving Cost Effective Personnel Services (1995)
- No. 17 Guidelines for Managing Risk in the APS (1994)
- No. 16 Performance Management: integrated use of recognition, rewards and sanctions (1994)
- No. 15 Ongoing Reform in the APS (1994)
- No. 14 Legal Issues: A Guide for Policy Development and Administration (1994)
- No. 13 Delegated Authority Handbook (1994)
- No. 12 Building a Better Public Service (1993)
- No. 11 Accountability in the Commonwealth Public Sector (1993)
- No. 10 Performance Management and the Management Cycle
- No. 9 Strategic Planning for Training and Development (1993)
- No. 8 Contracting for the Provision of Services in Commonwealth Agencies (1993)
- No. 7 The Management of Underperforming Officers in the APS (1992)
- No. 6 Devolution of Corporate Services (1992)
- No. 5 Accountability in the Commonwealth Public Sector: An exposure draft (1991)
- No. 4 Resource Agreements (1991)
- No. 3 Budget Flexibility: Carryover Provisions between Financial Periods (1991)
- No. 2 Devolution and Regional Offices (1991)
- No. 1 Improving Asset Management in the Public Sector (1991)
Circulars
2005
- Circular No 2005/4: Commission publications
- Circular No 2005/3: Disallowance of Amendments to the Public Service Regulations 1999 - Regulation 2.1 (Disclosure of information)
- Circular No 2005/1: Electronic publication of the APS Employment Database Manual
2004
- Circular No 2004/9: Electronic publication of two Commission advices - Conditions of Engagement and Ongoing Employment
- Circular No 2004/8: Amendment to the Public Service Regulations 1999
- Circular No 2004/5: Administrative Re-Arrangements
- Circular No 2004/2: Citizenship provisions relating to employment in the Australian Public Service
2003
- Circular No 2003/8: Temporary assignments and temporary movements of staff
- Circular No 2003/6: Probation
- Circular 2003/3: Cancellation of Section 26 agreements
- Circular 2003/2: Engagement of ongoing and non-ongoing employees
- Circular 2003/1: Payments in special circumstances - Section 73 of the Public Service Act 1999
- Disclosure of Information by APS employees-implications of the Bennett case
2002
- Circular 2002/11: Engagement of ongoing and non-ongoing APS employees
- Circular 2002/9: Release of new booklet: Termination of employment
- Circular 2002/8: Expiry of transitional mobility arrangements for employees formerly covered by Part IV of the Public Service Act 1922
- Circular 2002/7: Release of new booklet
- Circular 2002/6: Release of new booklets
- Circular 2002/4: Management Advisory Committee: Project on building organisational capabilities
- Circular 2002/3: Temporary movement provisions - Amendment to advice on movement of ongoing employees
- Circular 2002/2: Amendments to the Public Service Commissioner’s Directions on the engagement of persons who have received a redundancy benefit from Commonwealth employment
- Explanatory statement Public Service Commissioner's Amendment Directions 2002 No. 1 WORD
- Public Service Commissioner's Amendment Directions 2002 (no.1) WORD - Circular 2002/:1 Changes to the Public Service Regulations
2001
- Circular 2001/7: Administrative re-arrangements
- Circular 2001/2: Requirements for APS employees seeking to contest an election
1999 Circulars and Public Service Act advices
- PS Act Advice No. 1: Implementation of the new Public Service Act
- includes check list of changes, rights of people, amendments, powers, functions and obligations, delegations and changes in terminology - Advice No. 2: Delegations
- Advice No. 4: The APS Values and the Code of Conduct
- Advice No. 5 Breaches of the Code of Conduct
- Advice No. 6: Staffing actions: Ongoing employees (non-SES)
- Advice No. 8: Senior Executive Service (SES) Employment Arrangements
- Advice No. 13: Review of actions
- Advice No. 14: Promotion reviews
- Advice No. 15: Independent Selection Advisory Committees
- Advice No. 17: Reciprocal mobility - Replacement arrangements
- Advice No. 18: Release of personal information under the new Public Service Act
- Advice No. 19: Public Interest Whistleblowing
- Advice No. 20: Workplace Diversity Programs
- Advice No. 21: Workplace Harassment
- Advice No. 23 Transitional Provisions for Dealing with Pre-commencement misconduct
- Advice No. 24: Miscellaneous issues
- Advice No. 25: APS Employment Database
- Advice No. 26: Transitional Provisions for appeals, grievances, other rights of review and joint selection committees
- Advice No. 27: Rights and entitlements under Sections 6 and 7 of the PECTA Act (persons formerly covered by Part IV Mobility of the old PS Act)
- Advice No. 29: Limitations on the engagement of persons who have received a redundancy benefit
- Advice No. 30: Payments in special circumstances
- Advice No. 35: Delegations: Further information
- Advice No. 36: Engagement of ongoing and non-ongoing non-SES employees
- Advice No. 37: Authorisation and delegation of powers and functions of the Public Service Minister
- Circular 1999/12: Appointments to the Australian Public Service - New Zealand Citizens and the Permanent Resident requirement for probationary appointment
- Circular 1999/11: Advice on the Application of the Senior Executive Leadership Capability Framework to Senior Executive Service (SES) selection exercises includes Guidelines on Senior Executive Service Selection 1999
- Circular 1999/10: Access to health service providers records
- Circular 1999/9: Principles for Review of Employment Decision
- Circular 1999/8: Application of the Indigenous Employment Policy Initiative to the APS
- Circular 1999/7: Invalidity Retirement - Notice of Termination
- Circular 1999/6: Agreement Making Arrangements - Frequent Flyer Points
- Circular 1999/5: What ACTPS service is recognised for severance pay purposes in the APS?
- Circular 1999/4: Probationary Appointments to the Australian Public Service (APS) - Disallowance of Amendments to the Workplace Relations Regulations
- Circular 1999/3: Probationary appointments to the Australian Public Service (APS) - Effect of the Australian Public Service Award 1998 (APS Award) and amendments to the Workplace Relations Regulations
- Circular 1999/2: Redeployment and Retirement Framework and Award simplification
- Circular 1999/1: Public Service Education and Training Australia - Development of a Public Services Training Package
Pre 1999 circulars
- Circular 1998/19: Public Interest Whistleblowing and Achieving a Harassment-Free Workplace
- Circular 1998/18: Administrative rearrangements
- Circular 1998/17: Official conduct during the caretaker period
- Circular 1998/16: Restrictions on the appointment and temporary employment of persons who have accepted voluntary retrenchment from the APS - Extension of coverage
- Circular 1998/15: Workplace Diversity Programs
- Circular 1998/14: APS Conditions of Entry and Advancement Gazette and Gazettal of agency specific entry and advancement conditions
- Circular 1998/13: Special Recruitment Programs to the Australian Public Service (APS) for Indigenous Australians
- Circular 1998/12: Impediments to staff movements between agencies
- Circular 1998/11: Mobility arrangements between the Australian Public Service and the Australian Capital Territory Public Service
- Circular 1998/10: Public Service Reforms - Regulations to remain in place
- Circular 1998/9: Notification of vacancies in the Gazette and eligibility to apply for vacancies
- Circular 1998/8: Termination of Employment in APS Agencies - Operation of Section 170CL of the Workplace Relations Act 1996
- Circular 1998/7: Federal Court ruling on the definition of 'locality' in the Redeployment and Retirement Provisions of the APS General Employment Conditions Award 1995
- Circular 1998/6: Public Service Reforms
- Circular 1998/5: State of the Service Report - APS Employment Data
- Circular 1998/4: Restrictions on the appointment and temporary employment of persons who have accepted voluntary retrenchment from the APS
- Circular 1998/3: Managing Downsizing in the APS
- Circular 1998/2: APS Employment Reform - Setting the framework
- Circular 1998/1: Workplace Relations Act 1996 - Impact on APS Termination of Employment Requirements
- Circular 1997/14: (Barton Flyer: 1997/4) - Flexible Entry Level Employment Arrangements
- Circular 1997/13: (Barton Flyer: 1997/5) - Administrative Rearrangements
- Circular 1997/12: (Barton Flyer: 1997/3) - Outsourcing HRM Principles, Guidelines and Good Practice
- Circular 1997/11: Agreement making arrangements - Frequent Flyer Points
- Circular 1997/10: Allowances payable to secretaries on fixed term appointment or transfer to a location away from home: level of entitlement
- Circular 1997/9: Amendments to Public Service Regulation 112: GAA and Cadet Advancement
- Circular 1997/8: Restrictions on the employment of people who have accepted voluntary retrenchment
- Circular 1997/7: Advertising Policy for Identified Positions
- Circular 1997/6: Studies assistance
- Circular 1997/5: Mobility Arrangements between the APS and the ACTPS
- Circular 1997/4: Outsourcing: Taxation treatment of redundancy benefits under the Clean break approach
- Circular 1997/3: Graduate Administrative Assistant Program
- Circular 1997/2: Management of Excess Staff Situations in the APS
- Circular 1997/1: Membership of Unions by Commonwealth Public Servants
- Barton Flyer: 1997/6 - Public Interest Whistleblowing
- Barton Flyer: 1997/5 - Administrative Rearrangements
- Barton Flyer: 1997/4 - Flexible Entry Level Employment Arrangements
- Barton Flyer: 1997/3 - Outsourcing HRM
- Barton Flyer: 1997/2 - Workplace Diversity
- Barton Flyer: 1997/1 - Agency Specific Advice
- Circular 1996/20: Outsourcing - Corrigenda
- Circular 1996/19: Studies assistance
- Circular 1996/18: Graduate Administrative Assistant program
- Circular 1996/17: Outsourcing-Human Resource management principles, guidelines and good practice
- Circular 1996/16: Frequent Flyer Benefits
- Circular 1996/15: Revised fixed term employment arrangements
- Circular 1996/14: Voluntary retrenchment - Staff movement (Job swaps) within and between APS agencies and the taxation treatment of subsequent redundancy payments
- Circular 1996/13: Restrictions on the appointment and temporary employment of people who have accepted voluntary retrenchment from the APS
- Circular 1996/12: Identified positions: Policy change concerning advertising and request for agency input into current review
- Circular 1996/11: Staff reduction issues: Amendment to PS regulation 112 and use of Preference Nominations for several advertised positions
- Circular 1996/10: Interim guidelines for the management of excess staff in the APS
- Circular 1996/9: New Arrangements for Entry Level Vocational Training in the APS
- Circular 1996/8: Forfeiture of employment - pro formas
- Circular 1996/7: Managing the staffing consequences of a reduction in running costs
- Circular 1996/6: Duty of Care in Relation to the Provision of Financial Advice
- Circular 1996/5: Administrative re-arrangements
- Circular 1996/4: SES: Registration of Financial and other private interests
- Circular 1996/3: New Arrangements for the recruitment of short term temporary staff
- Circular 1996/2: Redeployment and Retirement provisions
- Circular 1996/1: Inefficiency Procedures - Amendments - Redeployment and Retirement Provisions (R&R Provisions) of the APS General Employment Conditions Award 1995
- Circular 1995/26: Fitness for coninued duty: Guidelines HTML
- Circular 1994/11: Parental Leave Test - Implications for Permanent Part-time work
- Circular 1994/2: Participation in Frequent Flyer schemes
- Circular 1993/4: Resignation to contest an election - Impact of the High Court decision in Sykes v Cleary and Others
- Circular 1992/12: Frequent Flyer schemes
- Circular 1991/11: Frequent Flyer schemes
- Circular 1991/7: Practice and Procedures for the Receipts of Official Gifts
- Circular 1990/15 Appointment of staff to the APS following resignation to care for young children
- Circular 1989/12: Intellectual Disability Program(IDAP)
- Circular 1989/11 Conflict of interest - Other than Pecuniary Interests
- Public Service Bill and Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Amendment Bill introduced into Parliament
- Accountability in a devolved management framework
- Public Service Board Memorandum 86/9055: Towards a Smoke-free Workplace
