The NSW Department of Health has admitted to the late payment of key entitlements for salaried emergency doctors at Westmead Hospital, potentially amounting to as much as a quarter of their take-home pay, following intervention by the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation. In a long-running dispute over payment times for allowances that
Australian Public Service Commission lawyers have spent two days at the Administrative Review Tribunal trying to prevent the release of more information related to the sacking of former secretary Mike Pezzullo. The code of conduct inquiry into Pezzullo was released following an 18-month FOI battle between former senator Rex Patrick
Thursday’s announcement of the updated National Defence Strategy (NDS) by Defence Minister Richard Marles was replete with the kind of language you would expect from a man whose job it is to balance the precarious expectations of a population in the grips of a cost-of-living crisis against a belligerent and,
The government’s 2026 national defence strategy consists of two documents — the 98-page strategy and an associated 114-page integrated investment program (IIP). If motherhood statements and jargon were removed in favour of meaningful solutions, both could have been trimmed to about 50 pages. For some reason, defence ministers of all
Stakeholders have less than 10 days to respond to Treasury proposals to beef up the sanctioning powers of the tax agent regulator. Current penalties that can be imposed by the Tax Practitioners Board include censure, orders to complete certain actions such as training, suspensions of registration, and termination. The TPB
Senior Executive Service Band 3 The Australian Bureau of Statistics has promoted Elizabeth Williamson to deputy Australian statistician. Band 2 Yvette Larter is now first assistant secretary of enterprise resource planning at the Department of Defence. Band 1 The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has named Katherine Luxford assistant secretary of
Australian public sector bosses are now the best paid in the world, following recent changes to remuneration in the United States. Following the announcement that the Remuneration Tribunal will consider APS secretaries’ and statutory officeholders’ pay, The Mandarin compared their current rates of pay with those of their counterparts in New Zealand, the UK,
Missile defences, drones, and nuclear submarines in the AUKUS deal will be prioritised as part of a record spend on defence infrastructure outside of wartime. Defence Minister Richard Marles handed down the 2026 national defence strategy on Thursday, laying out the path for Australia’s armed forces and the projects it
As exposure increases, our anxieties about AI continue to bubble to the surface. We worry about the atrophy of judgment through disuse; about the decline in our individual and collective understanding as AI prompting replaces comprehension; and about becoming passive overseers of systems that make decisions at speeds beyond our
One of Australia’s key accounting bodies has criticised the Australian Accounting Standards Board for proceeding with an agenda consultation process before any restructure is decided by the federal parliament. The Institute of Public Accountants has said the current agenda consultation document is slimmer than prior consultations, opens the AASB to
2026 BiiG Conference Held across two distinct days from 4 to 5 June, BiiG brings together people from across government, industry, academia and the not-for-profit sector to explore practical ideas, share real-world lessons and spark collaborations that lead to better public outcomes.
Australian governments should streamline heavy vehicle regulations to improve productivity, according to the Productivity Commission. Heavy vehicle freight is a key economic enabler, serving ports, farms, factories, shops and homes. Overall, the road transport sector and in-house road transport activity represent around 5% of Australian GDP and employ ...
The NSW Department of Health has admitted to the late payment of key entitlements for salaried emergency doctors at Westmead Hospital, potentially amounting to as much as a quarter of their take-home pay, following intervention by the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation. In a long-running dispute over payment times for allowances that
Australian Public Service Commission lawyers have spent two days at the Administrative Review Tribunal trying to prevent the release of more information related to the sacking of former secretary Mike Pezzullo. The code of conduct inquiry into Pezzullo was released following an 18-month FOI battle between former senator Rex Patrick
Thursday’s announcement of the updated National Defence Strategy (NDS) by Defence Minister Richard Marles was replete with the kind of language you would expect from a man whose job it is to balance the precarious expectations of a population in the grips of a cost-of-living crisis against a belligerent and,
The government’s 2026 national defence strategy consists of two documents — the 98-page strategy and an associated 114-page integrated investment program (IIP). If motherhood statements and jargon were removed in favour of meaningful solutions, both could have been trimmed to about 50 pages. For some reason, defence ministers of all
Stakeholders have less than 10 days to respond to Treasury proposals to beef up the sanctioning powers of the tax agent regulator. Current penalties that can be imposed by the Tax Practitioners Board include censure, orders to complete certain actions such as training, suspensions of registration, and termination. The TPB
Senior Executive Service Band 3 The Australian Bureau of Statistics has promoted Elizabeth Williamson to deputy Australian statistician. Band 2 Yvette Larter is now first assistant secretary of enterprise resource planning at the Department of Defence. Band 1 The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has named Katherine Luxford assistant secretary of
Australian public sector bosses are now the best paid in the world, following recent changes to remuneration in the United States. Following the announcement that the Remuneration Tribunal will consider APS secretaries’ and statutory officeholders’ pay, The Mandarin compared their current rates of pay with those of their counterparts in New Zealand, the UK,
Missile defences, drones, and nuclear submarines in the AUKUS deal will be prioritised as part of a record spend on defence infrastructure outside of wartime. Defence Minister Richard Marles handed down the 2026 national defence strategy on Thursday, laying out the path for Australia’s armed forces and the projects it
As exposure increases, our anxieties about AI continue to bubble to the surface. We worry about the atrophy of judgment through disuse; about the decline in our individual and collective understanding as AI prompting replaces comprehension; and about becoming passive overseers of systems that make decisions at speeds beyond our
One of Australia’s key accounting bodies has criticised the Australian Accounting Standards Board for proceeding with an agenda consultation process before any restructure is decided by the federal parliament. The Institute of Public Accountants has said the current agenda consultation document is slimmer than prior consultations, opens the AASB to
2026 BiiG Conference Held across two distinct days from 4 to 5 June, BiiG brings together people from across government, industry, academia and the not-for-profit sector to explore practical ideas, share real-world lessons and spark collaborations that lead to better public outcomes.
Australian governments should streamline heavy vehicle regulations to improve productivity, according to the Productivity Commission. Heavy vehicle freight is a key economic enabler, serving ports, farms, factories, shops and homes. Overall, the road transport sector and in-house road transport activity represent around 5% of Australian GDP and employ ...
