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Australian Public Service recruitment 'too Canberra-centric' as leaders consider allowing staff to live elsewhere

The federal bureaucracy is over-reliant on Canberra for its workforce and needs to base more staff outside the national capital, a government report says.

The Australian Public Service (APS) is amid a recruitment crisis, heightened by the ACT's extremely low unemployment rate, which is trending at 3 per cent.

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