So far, the new Coalition line-up, led by Angus Taylor, has been long on dog whistles and embarrassingly short on policy. The Australian Public Service can take comfort in the fact that the next election is likely more than two years away, which means little prospect of seismic change in
The re-commencement of official bargaining for the Australian Public Service’s next enterprise agreement may still be some months away, but the Australian Services Union has moved early to try and recoup lost ground in terms of pay that was set aside during the previous round of negotiations. The large and
Technology outsourcing behemoth DXC Technology is facing the prospect of staff working on Commonwealth government projects and worksites taking industrial action over the company’s stand on so-called “zombie” workplace agreements and the stalling of bargaining talks. In a dispute decades in the making, dating back to the failed doctrine of
Professor Toby Walsh has called on the Australian government and businesses to “bet big” on the upsides of AI to tip the scales, which are so heavily weighted towards gross social and individual harms. Pointing to the significant investment by comparable economies in AI products over the past five years
Former secretary Mike Pezzullo has taken the stage of a conference hosted by Universities Australia to discuss the measures taken in 2019 when nearly 20 years of ANU information was hacked. Chinese state threat actors are suspected of having been behind the sophisticated hack of student and staff information, including
Senior Executive Service Band 3 Anna Harmer has been promoted to various roles as deputy secretary at the Finance Department. Band 1 The Australian Taxation Office has announced two assistant commissioner appointments: Kylie Stephan in enterprise resource planning, and Jonathan Hill in commissioner, advice and guidance. The Department of Home
Almost all mobile phones in Australia will receive a test emergency alert in late July as the federal government prepares to roll out a new warning system for bushfires, floods, storms, and biosecurity hazards. The long-awaited AusAlert system will undergo a national test on Monday, July 27, before it officially
Remember the yarn about the Department of Social Services screwing up the management of $5 billion of aged pension payments? That was the big revelation in the performance audit of the aged pension payment system released by the Australian National Audit Office. Auditors pointed to a range of problems that
Defence has signed off on a $4 billion deal to build eight heavy landing craft ships capable of delivering more than 500 tonnes of equipment and supplies into littoral waters — to put it more simply, the shallows of operational zones. As the army continues to modernise its structure and
An Australian man reported by the ABC to have previously been an employee of the highly secretive Australian Signals Directorate has been sentenced to more than seven years’ jail time after pleading guilty and being convicted of selling restricted cyber-exploit tools to a Russian malicious software broker. A statement from
Education bureaucrat Jasmina Joldić has weighed in on the likely direction of regulatory reform in the higher education sector. Speaking at the Universities Australia Solution Summit, Joldić said the federal department was focused on “decluttering” regulation for higher education across all levels of government. The deputy secretary for higher education,
The Department of Industry, Science, and Resources has published a statement endorsing an AI impact declaration finalised at the recent AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. The declaration outlines the need for international collaboration across human capital, inclusion for social empowerment, safe and trusted AI, science, democratising AI resources, resilience,
So far, the new Coalition line-up, led by Angus Taylor, has been long on dog whistles and embarrassingly short on policy. The Australian Public Service can take comfort in the fact that the next election is likely more than two years away, which means little prospect of seismic change in
The re-commencement of official bargaining for the Australian Public Service’s next enterprise agreement may still be some months away, but the Australian Services Union has moved early to try and recoup lost ground in terms of pay that was set aside during the previous round of negotiations. The large and
Technology outsourcing behemoth DXC Technology is facing the prospect of staff working on Commonwealth government projects and worksites taking industrial action over the company’s stand on so-called “zombie” workplace agreements and the stalling of bargaining talks. In a dispute decades in the making, dating back to the failed doctrine of
Professor Toby Walsh has called on the Australian government and businesses to “bet big” on the upsides of AI to tip the scales, which are so heavily weighted towards gross social and individual harms. Pointing to the significant investment by comparable economies in AI products over the past five years
Former secretary Mike Pezzullo has taken the stage of a conference hosted by Universities Australia to discuss the measures taken in 2019 when nearly 20 years of ANU information was hacked. Chinese state threat actors are suspected of having been behind the sophisticated hack of student and staff information, including
Senior Executive Service Band 3 Anna Harmer has been promoted to various roles as deputy secretary at the Finance Department. Band 1 The Australian Taxation Office has announced two assistant commissioner appointments: Kylie Stephan in enterprise resource planning, and Jonathan Hill in commissioner, advice and guidance. The Department of Home
Almost all mobile phones in Australia will receive a test emergency alert in late July as the federal government prepares to roll out a new warning system for bushfires, floods, storms, and biosecurity hazards. The long-awaited AusAlert system will undergo a national test on Monday, July 27, before it officially
Remember the yarn about the Department of Social Services screwing up the management of $5 billion of aged pension payments? That was the big revelation in the performance audit of the aged pension payment system released by the Australian National Audit Office. Auditors pointed to a range of problems that
Defence has signed off on a $4 billion deal to build eight heavy landing craft ships capable of delivering more than 500 tonnes of equipment and supplies into littoral waters — to put it more simply, the shallows of operational zones. As the army continues to modernise its structure and
An Australian man reported by the ABC to have previously been an employee of the highly secretive Australian Signals Directorate has been sentenced to more than seven years’ jail time after pleading guilty and being convicted of selling restricted cyber-exploit tools to a Russian malicious software broker. A statement from
Education bureaucrat Jasmina Joldić has weighed in on the likely direction of regulatory reform in the higher education sector. Speaking at the Universities Australia Solution Summit, Joldić said the federal department was focused on “decluttering” regulation for higher education across all levels of government. The deputy secretary for higher education,
The Department of Industry, Science, and Resources has published a statement endorsing an AI impact declaration finalised at the recent AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. The declaration outlines the need for international collaboration across human capital, inclusion for social empowerment, safe and trusted AI, science, democratising AI resources, resilience,
