It’s 2027, and the Australian government is at a crossroads with AI. Jim Chalmers has been reading Scott Farquhar’s book, There’s No I in AI. The book itself is AI-generated. Like Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein’s Abundance in 2025, it’s a hit and was passed enthusiastically around the cabinet. Former
A shadow cabinet reshuffle has boosted Simon Kennedy into a key cabinet role as the opposition’s government waste-watcher. Kennedy assumes the newly created roles of shadow assistant minister for artificial intelligence, shadow assistant minister for the digital economy, and shadow assistant minister for scrutiny of government waste. The reshuffle marks
A former Australian Taxation Office employee who pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including fraud and abetting others to commit an offence, has copped a “a total effective sentence of five months’ imprisonment” after the National Anti-Corruption Commission secured a conviction on the back of joint agency Operation Hay. Launched by
Treating everyone as an individual, and not just a line entry in a CRM system or database, is critical when you communicate with them. People respond better when communications are tailored to their individual needs, making them feel as though the organisation has their interests at heart. For the Australian
It’s easy to think of cloud adoption as simply being a technical choice or an infrastructure upgrade, but the truth is more nuanced – cloud is really a strategic transformation that requires a fundamental rethink of your service delivery and internal operations. “When you make an investment in physical infrastructure,
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is headed for Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to participate in the Golden Jubilee celebrations marking the independence of Australia’s Pacific neighbour. The PM will spend three days in PNG from September 15-17, with planned meetings set to be held with PNG PM James Marape. In
Jacinta Allan has described her government’s Treaty with Aboriginal families in Victoria as a matter of common sense and a path to ensuring First Nations people have a say in their lives. In a statement, the premier said that giving people responsibility over their lives, their future and the things
The government’s response to the Defence and Veterans Suicide Royal Commission is now reaching a key moment. The Defence and Veterans’ Service Commission — the new body that will lead whole-of-government reform aimed at addressing the royal commission’s recommendations — commences in just over a fortnight, under the interim guidance
The Albanese government has said it would consider 54 recommendations in a 60-page report that are designed to help reduce the incidence of discrimination against Muslim Australians. Recommendations presented to the government by Aftab Malik, the special envoy to combat Islamophobia, cover 12 departments and the national parliament, and he
The Minns government has moved to rationalise public service-wide redundancy and redeployment provisions and entitlements for excess employees and public servants who have their roles eliminated by machinery of government changes, agency restructures and old-fashioned cost-cutting. As the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales increasingly ...
A Special Ministerial Inquiry into the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian (OCG), ordered by the state’s Minister for Families and Communities Kate Washington and conducted by Kate Eastman SC, has revealed a bleak assessment of the agency’s workplace culture and governance after its findings prompted the removal of its
In December 2019, then-opposition leader Anthony Albanese announced that Labor, if elected, would “reform freedom of information laws so they can’t be flouted by government”, decrying the fact that “the current delays, obstacles, costs, and exemptions make it easier for the government to hide information from the public.” A consistent
It’s 2027, and the Australian government is at a crossroads with AI. Jim Chalmers has been reading Scott Farquhar’s book, There’s No I in AI. The book itself is AI-generated. Like Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein’s Abundance in 2025, it’s a hit and was passed enthusiastically around the cabinet. Former
A shadow cabinet reshuffle has boosted Simon Kennedy into a key cabinet role as the opposition’s government waste-watcher. Kennedy assumes the newly created roles of shadow assistant minister for artificial intelligence, shadow assistant minister for the digital economy, and shadow assistant minister for scrutiny of government waste. The reshuffle marks
A former Australian Taxation Office employee who pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including fraud and abetting others to commit an offence, has copped a “a total effective sentence of five months’ imprisonment” after the National Anti-Corruption Commission secured a conviction on the back of joint agency Operation Hay. Launched by
Treating everyone as an individual, and not just a line entry in a CRM system or database, is critical when you communicate with them. People respond better when communications are tailored to their individual needs, making them feel as though the organisation has their interests at heart. For the Australian
It’s easy to think of cloud adoption as simply being a technical choice or an infrastructure upgrade, but the truth is more nuanced – cloud is really a strategic transformation that requires a fundamental rethink of your service delivery and internal operations. “When you make an investment in physical infrastructure,
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is headed for Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to participate in the Golden Jubilee celebrations marking the independence of Australia’s Pacific neighbour. The PM will spend three days in PNG from September 15-17, with planned meetings set to be held with PNG PM James Marape. In
Jacinta Allan has described her government’s Treaty with Aboriginal families in Victoria as a matter of common sense and a path to ensuring First Nations people have a say in their lives. In a statement, the premier said that giving people responsibility over their lives, their future and the things
The government’s response to the Defence and Veterans Suicide Royal Commission is now reaching a key moment. The Defence and Veterans’ Service Commission — the new body that will lead whole-of-government reform aimed at addressing the royal commission’s recommendations — commences in just over a fortnight, under the interim guidance
The Albanese government has said it would consider 54 recommendations in a 60-page report that are designed to help reduce the incidence of discrimination against Muslim Australians. Recommendations presented to the government by Aftab Malik, the special envoy to combat Islamophobia, cover 12 departments and the national parliament, and he
The Minns government has moved to rationalise public service-wide redundancy and redeployment provisions and entitlements for excess employees and public servants who have their roles eliminated by machinery of government changes, agency restructures and old-fashioned cost-cutting. As the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales increasingly ...
A Special Ministerial Inquiry into the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian (OCG), ordered by the state’s Minister for Families and Communities Kate Washington and conducted by Kate Eastman SC, has revealed a bleak assessment of the agency’s workplace culture and governance after its findings prompted the removal of its
In December 2019, then-opposition leader Anthony Albanese announced that Labor, if elected, would “reform freedom of information laws so they can’t be flouted by government”, decrying the fact that “the current delays, obstacles, costs, and exemptions make it easier for the government to hide information from the public.” A consistent
