Resources

Tools, guidance and resources to support staff in understanding, valuing and practicing good record keeping - ensuring continued delivery of trusted and transparent services.

The Guide to Policy Impact Analysis is intended to inform Australian Public Service policy making — ensuring that advice to government is accompanied by robust analysis, data and an accurate overview of the effects of proposed policies on our community.

Guidance on undertaking cost-benefit and risk analysis of regulatory proposals to be incorporated into Regulation Impact Statements (RIS).

This framework helps public servants better engage with citizens, community and businesses.

The Office for Women supports the government’s gender equality priorities and steward gender responsive budgeting by supporting the APS to build gender analysis capability.

The social media guidance provides a practical framework to help employees and agencies strike that balance in a reasonable and proportionate way.

Legislation provides a framework for acting with integrity. This includes the Public Service Act 1999, Public Service Regulations 1999 and Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Directions 2022.

The Australian Government is made up of many different types of government bodies. The Flipchart is a reference of all non-corporate and corporate Commonwealth entities and companies.

A full list of resource management guides to support the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA) from the Department of Finance website.

This fact sheet from the Parliamentary Education Office explains the law-making process in the Australian Parliament. It describes where ideas for laws come from and law-making history.