Is there a ‘bonanza’ for local film and TV producers in the new local content rules or is it just another Hollywood hustle by Netflix? Kim Wingerei asks. The new laws require major streaming services with over one million subscribers to invest a minimum of 10% of their local spending
Victoria has been attracting the dismay of its supporters and the glee of its detractors with its poorly performing state coffers, but to say that the axing of Sustainability Victoria is a good thing because it’s done its job is to stretch credulity.
Either that, or it’s providing a giant arrow to the budgets for spin merchants, which are clearly not ...
The much heralded and little understood social media ban for kids comes into effect on Wednesday, but will it solve anything? QUT Professor Daniel Angus asks. Young people in Australia are on the verge of a profound shift in their digital lives. And while public debate on the ban has focused on
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal has given misleading evidence to the Senate over her response to last month's neo-Nazi rally.
The post Jillian Segal misleads Senate over neo-Nazis appeared first on The Klaxon.
The outcome of the RBA’s final board meeting for the year on Tuesday is being taken for granted – nothing happening. But Michael Pascoe owns up to the real story being beyond the cash rate non-event. A confession: in my penguin-focussed coverage of last month’s RBA meeting, I missed the main
Earlier this week Defence Minister Richard Marles announced a big reform in Defence Procurement. Except it wasn’t a big reform, rather a rearranging of deck chairs. Former senator Rex Patrick reports. And the needle returns to the start of the song … On 22 June 2000, then Minister for Defence
We wish newlyweds Jodie Haydon and Anthony Albanese all the best. Long may their union last. But how long should we wait for the PM to stand up and make a real difference to a world in flux, Tim Dunlop asks? As the non-Labor side of Australian politics continues to
Amid the row over the accuracy of a translation, the Governor-General weighs in on the importance of transparency. Janet Pelly with the story. Last month, a translation of a speech by President David Adeang, made in February this year, revealed that Nauru believes “the people sent to Nauru are not
NACC boss Paul Brereton has a disturbing history of giving misleading information. How much more evidence of poor behaviour is needed for him to resign? Sarah Russell asks. Brereton has misled Parliament, the Attorney General, the CEO of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the public. Senator David Shoebridge is on
We published an ebook today on an exciting and emerging new industry, social procurement in construction. Most of our readers would know that’s about investing a small portion of big government infrastructure contracts in people and businesses who need the support.
The notion itself is not new – the concept of helping people worse off than ourselves ...
Under the recently published NSW Waste and Circular Economy Infrastructure Plan, the government will establish an advisory committee to guide the strategy’s implementation.
The industry has long requested this repeatedly. As described in my last article the reason is simple: neither the NSW government nor the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has ...
There is a very close link between unemployment rises and concerns about migration – yet Covid-19 appears to have upset the trend.
The post Immigration panic comes in waves. Data shows who worries most, and when appeared first on The Klaxon.
Is there a ‘bonanza’ for local film and TV producers in the new local content rules or is it just another Hollywood hustle by Netflix? Kim Wingerei asks. The new laws require major streaming services with over one million subscribers to invest a minimum of 10% of their local spending
Victoria has been attracting the dismay of its supporters and the glee of its detractors with its poorly performing state coffers, but to say that the axing of Sustainability Victoria is a good thing because it’s done its job is to stretch credulity.
Either that, or it’s providing a giant arrow to the budgets for spin merchants, which are clearly not ...
The much heralded and little understood social media ban for kids comes into effect on Wednesday, but will it solve anything? QUT Professor Daniel Angus asks. Young people in Australia are on the verge of a profound shift in their digital lives. And while public debate on the ban has focused on
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal has given misleading evidence to the Senate over her response to last month's neo-Nazi rally.
The post Jillian Segal misleads Senate over neo-Nazis appeared first on The Klaxon.
The outcome of the RBA’s final board meeting for the year on Tuesday is being taken for granted – nothing happening. But Michael Pascoe owns up to the real story being beyond the cash rate non-event. A confession: in my penguin-focussed coverage of last month’s RBA meeting, I missed the main
Earlier this week Defence Minister Richard Marles announced a big reform in Defence Procurement. Except it wasn’t a big reform, rather a rearranging of deck chairs. Former senator Rex Patrick reports. And the needle returns to the start of the song … On 22 June 2000, then Minister for Defence
We wish newlyweds Jodie Haydon and Anthony Albanese all the best. Long may their union last. But how long should we wait for the PM to stand up and make a real difference to a world in flux, Tim Dunlop asks? As the non-Labor side of Australian politics continues to
Amid the row over the accuracy of a translation, the Governor-General weighs in on the importance of transparency. Janet Pelly with the story. Last month, a translation of a speech by President David Adeang, made in February this year, revealed that Nauru believes “the people sent to Nauru are not
NACC boss Paul Brereton has a disturbing history of giving misleading information. How much more evidence of poor behaviour is needed for him to resign? Sarah Russell asks. Brereton has misled Parliament, the Attorney General, the CEO of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the public. Senator David Shoebridge is on
We published an ebook today on an exciting and emerging new industry, social procurement in construction. Most of our readers would know that’s about investing a small portion of big government infrastructure contracts in people and businesses who need the support.
The notion itself is not new – the concept of helping people worse off than ourselves ...
Under the recently published NSW Waste and Circular Economy Infrastructure Plan, the government will establish an advisory committee to guide the strategy’s implementation.
The industry has long requested this repeatedly. As described in my last article the reason is simple: neither the NSW government nor the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has ...
There is a very close link between unemployment rises and concerns about migration – yet Covid-19 appears to have upset the trend.
The post Immigration panic comes in waves. Data shows who worries most, and when appeared first on The Klaxon.