Our weekly appointments wrap includes Darren Foster, Catherine Raw, Johan van Jaarsveld, Andrea Sutton, Ross Love, Paul Ferguson, Dixie Marshall and Tania Hudson.
Former Department of Premier and Cabinet director general and government special advisor Darren Foster has been appointed chair of the state's Heritage Council.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Jamie Allardice, Zac Komur, Gail Bowman, Marten Tieleman, Alison Xamon, Kate O'Hara, Rebecca Smith, David Flanagan, Chris Ellison, Josh Thurlow, Neale Fong, Gary Dreibergs, Darren Foster, Fabian Ross and Jennifer McGrath.
The second McGowan government is set for big changes, with two of the premier's three closest advisers resigning and minister Peter Tinley believed to have been demoted.
Former McGowan Government media adviser Steve Kaless has launched a defamation case against the Premier, the Treasurer and several government staff members after his acquittal on a charge of indecently assaulting a female colleague at a Christmas party last year.
Department of the Premier and Cabinet director general, Darren Foster, is stepping down immediately, with senior bureaucrats Rebecca Brown and Sharyn O'Neill stepping into the breach.
The head of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has been accused of an “extremely serious intentional breach of parliamentary privilege” by a parliamentary committee chaired by Labor's Kate Doust for his actions during a Corruption and Crime Commission investigation.
John Langoulant's interests range widely, from building a lyric theatre in Perth to doing business in the Top End, but his main passion is public sector reform.
Opinion: The departure of career public servant Stephen Wood has raised questions about the role of the bureaucracy in providing frank and fearless advice.
Darren Foster has been formally confirmed as director general of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, making him arguably the state's most powerful public servant, in a move forshadowed by Business News in March.
Senior public servants Stephen Wood, David Smith and Darren Foster are among the main winners from the state government's plan to create 11 larger departments.
A former chief of staff to Premier Mark McGowan has been seconded to a senior role in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, triggering speculation he may become the next director general, putting him at the centre of government power.
