Students and commentators on Australian politics tend to get rather smug about compulsory voting. There is much of this in Annabel Crabb’s Civic Duty, which engages the issue with full-throated enthusiasm. At no point does it consider that curious paradox that Australians do not have a right to vote but

Australia likes to think of itself as a “clever country”, and on many measures that still holds. With just over 0.3% of the world’s population, we produce more than 3% of global research output. Our scientists publish at high rates, our universities rank well, and national agencies carry responsibilities many

The NSW Audit Office has entered into a partnership with the CSIRO’s Data61 to test the utility and limits of applying “generative and agentic” models to government workloads — specifically, public audit functions and how government organisations might be evaluated. In what could soon be a watershed for the accounting

Precision timing, combined with laser-guided military-diplomatic munitions, has emerged as one of the Albanese government’s most effective tools for dealing with the Trump administration’s agenda. The announcement of a major expansion of the Ghost Bat unmanned combat aircraft program has been skilfully coordinated to coincide with a “full steam ahead”

Northern Territory corrections workers have been told not to speak to a UN human rights delegation during a scheduled visit this week. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention announced visits to ACT, NSW, NT, and WA late last month. Delegates Ganna Yudkivska and Matthew Gillett have visited prisons and

More than 38,000 Queensland public sector health workers have secured a certified agreement with the government. A majority of staff at Queensland Health and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce accepted the government’s offer in a ballot for a wage increase of 8% over three years. The terms