This report proposes a range of mitigating strategies for navigating around these barriers and achieving and maintaining a better gender balance across the Australian Public Service.

This collection of essays examines Commonwealth administration under the leadership of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from 2007-2010. This was a remarkable period in Australian history: Rudd’s government was elected in 2007 with an ambitious program for change. However, as the chapters in this book demonstrate, these ambitions were thwarted by a range of factors, not...