Top ACT bureaucrat Yu-Lan Chan says she has navigated her career with a good dash of curiosity and simply followed her interests. Speaking to The Mandarin about her professional path, the senior public servant says she never had any specific job in mind as she climbed the ranks of various
Wage growth for public sector employees across Australia has narrowly exceeded the official inflation rate for the December quarter 2025, landing in the black. Public servants contributed a substantially larger share of pay rises to the economy, as private-sector wages fell behind the headline inflation rate for the first
Governments and tech companies have converged on New Delhi to discuss the future of artificial intelligence with the world’s biggest companies. The India AI Impact Summit has attracted delegations from more than 100 countries. Attendants include 20 national leaders, 45 ministers, and leaders from all ‘Magnificent Seven’ tech companies. The
Upon winning the leadership of the Liberal Party, Angus Taylor said bluntly: “Change or die, and I choose change.” It’s a striking line, but it prompts an obvious question. What might real change look like? There could be a clue in the ANU Australian Election Study 2025, and it’s not what you might expect.
In an extraordinarily timed intervention, Victoria’s three core integrity agencies teamed up on Wednesday to publish a joint paper with recommendations to strengthen budget transparency and independence. Under current funding arrangements, the budgets of the Victorian Ombud, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission, and the Victorian ...
I was taken by the recent speech of PM&C secretary Steven Kennedy, who said: “Efforts around the world by authoritarians to control information and politicise data underscore the need for the public service to value transparency, honesty and reason…. …waning trust in institutions, growing intolerance and the ways mis
Military muscle-flexing in the increasingly contested South China Sea can take many forms, as US-aligned forces, including Australia, seek to assert their presence and support regional allies like the Philippines. But the sometimes loaded term of ‘freedom of navigation’ has yielded to a more militarily appropriate euphemism. The Australian
The New South Wales government’s push to create a new broad-based property tax that slugs all landowners to broaden the funding base for the state’s existing Emergency Services Levy (ESL), last gazetted at $1.4 billion as a revenue collection target, has hit a hefty speed bump. Local governments have bluntly
More than 300,000 US public servants have lost their jobs in 12 months, according to congressional research. The research, conducted by Democratic party staff for a House subcommittee on government efficiency, found the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had cost the country significantly more than it saved. Ranking Democratic member
Australian Government Consulting (AGC) will grow to 150 staff as part of the government’s plan to cut spending on external contractors. “We have commenced recruitment and started to grow,” chief consulting officer Andrew Nipe told Senate estimates. “On January 1, we sat at 37 staff, with the plan to expand
Katy Gallagher has highlighted the federal government’s efforts to lift digital services as Australia secures second place in the 2025 Digital Government Index (DGI). The public service and government services minister welcomed Australia’s top-two placing in the latest DGI, noting it was a hallmark of improving citizen and business interactions
When we think about Australia’s energy system transition, considering the past 20 years of change can be both instructive and humbling. When Nous Group’s Energy and Decarbonisation team looked back at 2005, it became clear that the sector had failed to foresee the scale and speed of change. When we looked forward to 2045,
Top ACT bureaucrat Yu-Lan Chan says she has navigated her career with a good dash of curiosity and simply followed her interests. Speaking to The Mandarin about her professional path, the senior public servant says she never had any specific job in mind as she climbed the ranks of various
Wage growth for public sector employees across Australia has narrowly exceeded the official inflation rate for the December quarter 2025, landing in the black. Public servants contributed a substantially larger share of pay rises to the economy, as private-sector wages fell behind the headline inflation rate for the first
Governments and tech companies have converged on New Delhi to discuss the future of artificial intelligence with the world’s biggest companies. The India AI Impact Summit has attracted delegations from more than 100 countries. Attendants include 20 national leaders, 45 ministers, and leaders from all ‘Magnificent Seven’ tech companies. The
Upon winning the leadership of the Liberal Party, Angus Taylor said bluntly: “Change or die, and I choose change.” It’s a striking line, but it prompts an obvious question. What might real change look like? There could be a clue in the ANU Australian Election Study 2025, and it’s not what you might expect.
In an extraordinarily timed intervention, Victoria’s three core integrity agencies teamed up on Wednesday to publish a joint paper with recommendations to strengthen budget transparency and independence. Under current funding arrangements, the budgets of the Victorian Ombud, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission, and the Victorian ...
I was taken by the recent speech of PM&C secretary Steven Kennedy, who said: “Efforts around the world by authoritarians to control information and politicise data underscore the need for the public service to value transparency, honesty and reason…. …waning trust in institutions, growing intolerance and the ways mis
Military muscle-flexing in the increasingly contested South China Sea can take many forms, as US-aligned forces, including Australia, seek to assert their presence and support regional allies like the Philippines. But the sometimes loaded term of ‘freedom of navigation’ has yielded to a more militarily appropriate euphemism. The Australian
The New South Wales government’s push to create a new broad-based property tax that slugs all landowners to broaden the funding base for the state’s existing Emergency Services Levy (ESL), last gazetted at $1.4 billion as a revenue collection target, has hit a hefty speed bump. Local governments have bluntly
More than 300,000 US public servants have lost their jobs in 12 months, according to congressional research. The research, conducted by Democratic party staff for a House subcommittee on government efficiency, found the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had cost the country significantly more than it saved. Ranking Democratic member
Australian Government Consulting (AGC) will grow to 150 staff as part of the government’s plan to cut spending on external contractors. “We have commenced recruitment and started to grow,” chief consulting officer Andrew Nipe told Senate estimates. “On January 1, we sat at 37 staff, with the plan to expand
Katy Gallagher has highlighted the federal government’s efforts to lift digital services as Australia secures second place in the 2025 Digital Government Index (DGI). The public service and government services minister welcomed Australia’s top-two placing in the latest DGI, noting it was a hallmark of improving citizen and business interactions
When we think about Australia’s energy system transition, considering the past 20 years of change can be both instructive and humbling. When Nous Group’s Energy and Decarbonisation team looked back at 2005, it became clear that the sector had failed to foresee the scale and speed of change. When we looked forward to 2045,
