Accounting and audit rulemakers are still waiting for the Digital Transformation Agency to confirm which email address was used to contact them about an AI-related regulation for the public sector. A response by the Australian Accounting Standards Board and the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board to questions asked by Senator
The WA government will set up a new clean energy fund to invest in works aimed at delivering cleaner, more affordable, and reliable energy. Announced on Monday, the $1.4 billion initiative will be included in the 2026-27 state budget and support projects such as the Clean Energy Link (CEL). The
Australia should have settled the taxation of gas exports before the LNG boom matured, when governments had more leverage, project economics were still being set, and the public share of the upside could have been defined more clearly. But lateness is not a reason to leave the problem untouched. The
Long before Medicare, federal election campaigns were already reshaping health as a Commonwealth responsibility. Between 1913 and 1929, Australian leaders across parties began to reposition health from a marginal federal concern to an emerging national priority. Early election debates focused narrowly on quarantine, disease control, and border ...
The honour of being Australia’s highest-taxing government isn’t perhaps one that is actively sought by state politicians — at least, not the ones in the major parties — but ministers of the Victorian Labor Party have worked assiduously to wrest the title from traditional powerhouse NSW in recent years.Go back
The Australian Human Rights Commission has endorsed the decision of the Commonwealth ombud to review the use of the integrated assessment tool in aged care. A review is underway to determine whether the IAT is being used appropriately to assess the level of care an older person needs as part
Public servants across New South Wales were issued a major warning about cabinet confidentiality conventions just days before the state government declared a “significant cyber incident” over the exfiltration of a cache of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents, triggering police raids and the arrest of a Treasury official. As
The Australian Taxation Office has hit the market for an upgrade to its digital identity security toolset, which can distinguish real-life, actual humans from AI-augmented deep-faked duds when verifying who is actually applying for a government-issued digital identity credential, these days known as myID. The ATO on Wednesday last week
When Minister for Health, Ageing, and the NDIS Mark Butler addressed the National Press Club last week, he started — as is often prudent for politicians about to announce potentially unpopular policy — with the promise of cash. “This budget will invest three billion dollars in delivering more beds, more
Australia is not short of housing ambition. The National Housing Accord commits to 1.2 million new homes by 2029. The Housing Australia Future Fund is distributing $10 billion. States are announcing billions more in spending. Planning reform is underway. Money is flowing. And yet the National Housing Supply and Affordability
Presuming World War III does not engulf us all, even the best-case post-Trump scenario for public administration does not look rosy. Nobody yet knows whether the era of unhinged, toxic populism might dissipate like a terrible nightmare or whether key American federal institutions have been damaged beyond repair or very
The deputy head of the Digital Transformation Agency has put public servants keen to dive into the rapid efficiencies ostensibly offered by artificial intelligence on notice that AI still doesn’t add up to a substitute for inclusive systems design that goes well beyond online interfaces and bots. In one of
Accounting and audit rulemakers are still waiting for the Digital Transformation Agency to confirm which email address was used to contact them about an AI-related regulation for the public sector. A response by the Australian Accounting Standards Board and the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board to questions asked by Senator
The WA government will set up a new clean energy fund to invest in works aimed at delivering cleaner, more affordable, and reliable energy. Announced on Monday, the $1.4 billion initiative will be included in the 2026-27 state budget and support projects such as the Clean Energy Link (CEL). The
Australia should have settled the taxation of gas exports before the LNG boom matured, when governments had more leverage, project economics were still being set, and the public share of the upside could have been defined more clearly. But lateness is not a reason to leave the problem untouched. The
Long before Medicare, federal election campaigns were already reshaping health as a Commonwealth responsibility. Between 1913 and 1929, Australian leaders across parties began to reposition health from a marginal federal concern to an emerging national priority. Early election debates focused narrowly on quarantine, disease control, and border ...
The honour of being Australia’s highest-taxing government isn’t perhaps one that is actively sought by state politicians — at least, not the ones in the major parties — but ministers of the Victorian Labor Party have worked assiduously to wrest the title from traditional powerhouse NSW in recent years.Go back
The Australian Human Rights Commission has endorsed the decision of the Commonwealth ombud to review the use of the integrated assessment tool in aged care. A review is underway to determine whether the IAT is being used appropriately to assess the level of care an older person needs as part
Public servants across New South Wales were issued a major warning about cabinet confidentiality conventions just days before the state government declared a “significant cyber incident” over the exfiltration of a cache of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents, triggering police raids and the arrest of a Treasury official. As
The Australian Taxation Office has hit the market for an upgrade to its digital identity security toolset, which can distinguish real-life, actual humans from AI-augmented deep-faked duds when verifying who is actually applying for a government-issued digital identity credential, these days known as myID. The ATO on Wednesday last week
When Minister for Health, Ageing, and the NDIS Mark Butler addressed the National Press Club last week, he started — as is often prudent for politicians about to announce potentially unpopular policy — with the promise of cash. “This budget will invest three billion dollars in delivering more beds, more
Australia is not short of housing ambition. The National Housing Accord commits to 1.2 million new homes by 2029. The Housing Australia Future Fund is distributing $10 billion. States are announcing billions more in spending. Planning reform is underway. Money is flowing. And yet the National Housing Supply and Affordability
Presuming World War III does not engulf us all, even the best-case post-Trump scenario for public administration does not look rosy. Nobody yet knows whether the era of unhinged, toxic populism might dissipate like a terrible nightmare or whether key American federal institutions have been damaged beyond repair or very
The deputy head of the Digital Transformation Agency has put public servants keen to dive into the rapid efficiencies ostensibly offered by artificial intelligence on notice that AI still doesn’t add up to a substitute for inclusive systems design that goes well beyond online interfaces and bots. In one of
