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Tech agency gets standard setters’ email wrong

Tech agency gets standard setters’ email wrong

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
A political history of Australian health policy, part 1: Foundations of a national health policy, 1913-1929

A political history of Australian health policy, part 1: Foundations of a national health policy, 1913-1929

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 ...
Minns warns public servants about cabinet leaks

Minns warns public servants about cabinet leaks

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
Monday Briefing: Proposed changes to the NDIS

Monday Briefing: Proposed changes to the NDIS

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
DTA sounds alarm on ‘low‑effort’ AI

DTA sounds alarm on ‘low‑effort’ AI

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

Tech agency gets standard setters’ email wrong

Tech agency gets standard setters’ email wrong
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

A political history of Australian health policy, part 1: Foundations of a national health policy, 1913-1929

A political history of Australian health policy, part 1: Foundations of a national health policy, 1913-1929
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 ...

Minns warns public servants about cabinet leaks

Minns warns public servants about cabinet leaks
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

Monday Briefing: Proposed changes to the NDIS

Monday Briefing: Proposed changes to the NDIS
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

DTA sounds alarm on ‘low‑effort’ AI

DTA sounds alarm on ‘low‑effort’ AI
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