Governing the City State - Chief Minister and Treasury Directorate ...

• to lower Canberra’s carbon emissions, the community will invest in sustainable transportand buildings;• there will be a shift from current motor vehicle dependency to more sustainable options;• incentives and planning codes that reduce energy and water use in new and old houseswill conserve resources;• by 2030 new development will create a more compact city; and• broad and early community engagement will be led by Government who will take a more“open government” approach to future planning of the city.The ACT Public ServiceIn the period immediately following the granting of self government, the ACT’s publicservants remained employed under their existing Australian Public Service employmentarrangements, and it was not until 1994 that the ACTPS was established under ACT law inthe Public Sector Management Act 1994 (the PSM Act). 26Under the Self Government Act and the PSM Act, the Chief Minister determines theallocation of portfolio responsibilities to Ministers, establishes “Administrative Units”responsible for certain functions and places chief executives in control of thoseAdministrative Units. This division of responsibility is published in the AdministrativeArrangements.The ACTPS employs 20,000 people. Its current nine Departments and various agencies aredivided into an extraordinary 81 separate reporting entities for the purposes of annualreporting to the Assembly. More than half of the ACTPS workforce is employed by theDepartment of Education and Training and ACT Health (which have around 27% of the totalworkforce each). The next biggest agencies are TAMS (at around 9%) and the Departmentof Justice and Community Safety (at around 7%). The ACTPS accounts for around 11% oftotal employment in the ACT.The Service-wide average age of ACTPS employees at June 2009 was 43.2 (up from 42.7 atJune 2008). The average age for females was 43.0 (up from 42.6 at June 2008) and 43.6 formen (up from 42.9 at June 2008). The modal (i.e. most common) age across the Service atJune 2009 for men was 53 (up from 51 at June 2008), while for females it was 50 (up from48 at June 2008).Nine classification groups had an average age higher than the ACTPS average:• bus operators (48.4 years);• linen production and maintenance (46.7 years);• school leaders (46.3 years);• senior officers (45.6 years);• general service officers and equivalent (45.3 years);• nursing staff (43.9 years);26 See http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/1994-37/default.aspContext for the Review: 42