With rising public scrutiny, fast-moving harms, and tighter civil penalties, investigations and enforcement teams are under pressure to deliver court-ready cases, visible deterrence, and behaviour change, while using powers proportionately and proving impact. The National Investigations & Enforcement Summit 2026 will explore how regulators are ...
Regulators across Australia are operating in an environment of increasing complexity, expanding oversight responsibilities and heightened public expectations around fairness, transparency and efficiency. At the same time, government priorities are focussed on streamlined, risk-based and evidence-driven regulation. AI offers practical ways to support ...
Military-owned golf courses, islands and prime beachfront real estate will be put up for sale in an attempt to raise nearly $2 billion for the nation’s defence forces. A total of 64 sites will be fully or partly sold, including the historic Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Proceeds
Maile Carnegie has been honoured with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to corporate administration in senior executive roles, and to governance and advisory positions. Maile Carnegie is an exemplar of the phrase: ‘if you want anything done, ask a busy person’. The 19-year veteran
The Albanese government’s announcement of a new Defence Delivery Agency is presented as a structural reform: merging three major acquisition and sustainment groups, establishing a new national armaments director, and clarifying ministerial accountability. It comes amid record peacetime defence expenditure and a pressing strategic environment. The ...
When I arranged to visit Mossmont Nurseries outside Griffith in the NSW Riverina, I pictured something like an expanded version of the garden centre at Bunnings. The reality is starkly different. In the words of Jonathan Moss, it’s “a tree factory”. Moss is a sixth-generation owner of this family business,
NSW public servants have scored a sector-wide pay annual bump of 4%, taking their full-time remuneration to a median of $110,266 in 2025 — up from $106,025 in 2024. The lift has put them proportionally ahead of the state’s health workers and teachers, but behind the total government sector
The Commonwealth government spent more than $200 million on advertising last financial year — the second-largest such expenditure on record. The Department of Finance catalogued $265.3 million in advertising spent by Australian government agencies in 2024-25. This year, the government spent the most advertising money on Defence recruitment ($54.1 million),
Minister Jason Clare, you and I both know how quickly opportunity narrows when education falls short. School is back for a new year. Parliament too. And this year, the stakes couldn’t be higher. There’s plenty of reform work to be done to ensure all students can make the most of
Sarah Court, the incoming head of Australia’s corporate watchdog, will bring a “strong record in enforcement” to ASIC, outgoing chair Joe Longo says. As the first woman to lead the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in its 35-year history, Court will bring deep regulatory expertise to the role from her
The Department of Parliamentary Services may not have breached rules of privilege by providing data to a third party to assist with investigations, according to the Attorney-General’s Department. Parliamentary Services, the Australian Federal Police, and the AGD provided submissions to a Senate privileges committee inquiry into how the department managed
Should public servants be required to declare any and all memberships to airline and affiliated loyalty schemes? What constitutes purchasing behaviour that is motivated or influenced by airline loyalty or preference? How do you measure the cost of not being able to work or meet in airline lounges? Those are
With rising public scrutiny, fast-moving harms, and tighter civil penalties, investigations and enforcement teams are under pressure to deliver court-ready cases, visible deterrence, and behaviour change, while using powers proportionately and proving impact. The National Investigations & Enforcement Summit 2026 will explore how regulators are ...
Regulators across Australia are operating in an environment of increasing complexity, expanding oversight responsibilities and heightened public expectations around fairness, transparency and efficiency. At the same time, government priorities are focussed on streamlined, risk-based and evidence-driven regulation. AI offers practical ways to support ...
Military-owned golf courses, islands and prime beachfront real estate will be put up for sale in an attempt to raise nearly $2 billion for the nation’s defence forces. A total of 64 sites will be fully or partly sold, including the historic Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Proceeds
Maile Carnegie has been honoured with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to corporate administration in senior executive roles, and to governance and advisory positions. Maile Carnegie is an exemplar of the phrase: ‘if you want anything done, ask a busy person’. The 19-year veteran
The Albanese government’s announcement of a new Defence Delivery Agency is presented as a structural reform: merging three major acquisition and sustainment groups, establishing a new national armaments director, and clarifying ministerial accountability. It comes amid record peacetime defence expenditure and a pressing strategic environment. The ...
When I arranged to visit Mossmont Nurseries outside Griffith in the NSW Riverina, I pictured something like an expanded version of the garden centre at Bunnings. The reality is starkly different. In the words of Jonathan Moss, it’s “a tree factory”. Moss is a sixth-generation owner of this family business,
NSW public servants have scored a sector-wide pay annual bump of 4%, taking their full-time remuneration to a median of $110,266 in 2025 — up from $106,025 in 2024. The lift has put them proportionally ahead of the state’s health workers and teachers, but behind the total government sector
The Commonwealth government spent more than $200 million on advertising last financial year — the second-largest such expenditure on record. The Department of Finance catalogued $265.3 million in advertising spent by Australian government agencies in 2024-25. This year, the government spent the most advertising money on Defence recruitment ($54.1 million),
Minister Jason Clare, you and I both know how quickly opportunity narrows when education falls short. School is back for a new year. Parliament too. And this year, the stakes couldn’t be higher. There’s plenty of reform work to be done to ensure all students can make the most of
Sarah Court, the incoming head of Australia’s corporate watchdog, will bring a “strong record in enforcement” to ASIC, outgoing chair Joe Longo says. As the first woman to lead the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in its 35-year history, Court will bring deep regulatory expertise to the role from her
The Department of Parliamentary Services may not have breached rules of privilege by providing data to a third party to assist with investigations, according to the Attorney-General’s Department. Parliamentary Services, the Australian Federal Police, and the AGD provided submissions to a Senate privileges committee inquiry into how the department managed
Should public servants be required to declare any and all memberships to airline and affiliated loyalty schemes? What constitutes purchasing behaviour that is motivated or influenced by airline loyalty or preference? How do you measure the cost of not being able to work or meet in airline lounges? Those are
