Ashley Bunce will be the next inspector-general of animal welfare and live animal exports. The Office of the Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports was expanded in 2023 to include livestock animal welfare export objectives. Under this expanded mandate, Bunce will independently review the systems and processes that underpin the Department
NSW government agencies unfairly subjected small businesses to compliance audits, according to the state’s ombud. The NSW ombud investigation into Service NSW (SNSW) and Revenue NSW (RNSW) found that the agencies were using audits as an “after-the-fact eligibility assessment”. The NSW Business Grant, JobSaver payment, and Micro-business Grant delivered ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told Senate estimates it is reviewing information about three registered auditors reported to them by their professional body for exam cheating. An ASIC response to questions from Greens Senator Barbara Pocock on auditors and exam cheating reveals that Chartered Accountants Australia and New
A stakeholder consultation group key to improving the way NDIS supports and services are regulated has been “refreshed”. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has reconstituted its sector consultation forum, which provides advice to the commission on the practical impact of how NDIS services are being delivered. Forum feedback is
Budget cycles have a distinct shape. Like metrological phenomena, the exact shape varies depending on the position from which you observe. For those inside government, budgets begin the previous year. They are wide and vast, full of possibilities. As options are refined and decisions are taken that wide aperture narrows
The previous articles traced how health moved from protection and insurance into a settled universal system. From the late 1980s onwards, election speeches no longer debate whether Medicare should exist, but what it means, how it should be funded, and whether it is fair, efficient and effective. This final article
Senior Executive Service Band 3 Kerren Crosthwaite has been name the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry’s next chief operating officer. Band 2 Austrade has promoted Nicholas Dowie to general manager of the office of tourism and visitor economy. Band 1 Charlotte Konokoly is now an assistant secretary at the Attorney-General’s Department.
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has released its interim report ahead of a public hearing, observing that “no material or advice from any agency identified any gap in the existing legal and regulatory frameworks that impeded the ability for law enforcement, border control, immigration, and security agencies
The Greens have called for an accounting and auditing rulemaker to be required by law to act in the public interest. Senator Barbara Pocock has used the crossbench party’s additional remarks in a committee report to insist the new body, External Reporting Australia, must have a public interest responsibility enshrined
The idea of incentivising whistleblowers — paying for information — has traditionally been a controversial one in Australia. That is a shame. It’s a shame because the clear evidence from the United States is that it works. It works by helping regulators recover ill-got gains from contractors that rip off
All over the world, governments are grappling with how to make the most of AI. But one lesson of history is that often you need to change your underlying structures and processes to use new technologies to the full. Part of the answer may lie in the idea of the
If the post‑war decades were characterised by expansion without universality, the years from 1969 to 1984 were defined by sustained debates over system design. Election speeches from this period revive earlier moral claims about fairness and personal responsibility while coupling them with increasingly technical debates over levies, administration, and the
Ashley Bunce will be the next inspector-general of animal welfare and live animal exports. The Office of the Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports was expanded in 2023 to include livestock animal welfare export objectives. Under this expanded mandate, Bunce will independently review the systems and processes that underpin the Department
NSW government agencies unfairly subjected small businesses to compliance audits, according to the state’s ombud. The NSW ombud investigation into Service NSW (SNSW) and Revenue NSW (RNSW) found that the agencies were using audits as an “after-the-fact eligibility assessment”. The NSW Business Grant, JobSaver payment, and Micro-business Grant delivered ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told Senate estimates it is reviewing information about three registered auditors reported to them by their professional body for exam cheating. An ASIC response to questions from Greens Senator Barbara Pocock on auditors and exam cheating reveals that Chartered Accountants Australia and New
A stakeholder consultation group key to improving the way NDIS supports and services are regulated has been “refreshed”. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has reconstituted its sector consultation forum, which provides advice to the commission on the practical impact of how NDIS services are being delivered. Forum feedback is
Budget cycles have a distinct shape. Like metrological phenomena, the exact shape varies depending on the position from which you observe. For those inside government, budgets begin the previous year. They are wide and vast, full of possibilities. As options are refined and decisions are taken that wide aperture narrows
The previous articles traced how health moved from protection and insurance into a settled universal system. From the late 1980s onwards, election speeches no longer debate whether Medicare should exist, but what it means, how it should be funded, and whether it is fair, efficient and effective. This final article
Senior Executive Service Band 3 Kerren Crosthwaite has been name the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry’s next chief operating officer. Band 2 Austrade has promoted Nicholas Dowie to general manager of the office of tourism and visitor economy. Band 1 Charlotte Konokoly is now an assistant secretary at the Attorney-General’s Department.
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has released its interim report ahead of a public hearing, observing that “no material or advice from any agency identified any gap in the existing legal and regulatory frameworks that impeded the ability for law enforcement, border control, immigration, and security agencies
The Greens have called for an accounting and auditing rulemaker to be required by law to act in the public interest. Senator Barbara Pocock has used the crossbench party’s additional remarks in a committee report to insist the new body, External Reporting Australia, must have a public interest responsibility enshrined
The idea of incentivising whistleblowers — paying for information — has traditionally been a controversial one in Australia. That is a shame. It’s a shame because the clear evidence from the United States is that it works. It works by helping regulators recover ill-got gains from contractors that rip off
All over the world, governments are grappling with how to make the most of AI. But one lesson of history is that often you need to change your underlying structures and processes to use new technologies to the full. Part of the answer may lie in the idea of the
If the post‑war decades were characterised by expansion without universality, the years from 1969 to 1984 were defined by sustained debates over system design. Election speeches from this period revive earlier moral claims about fairness and personal responsibility while coupling them with increasingly technical debates over levies, administration, and the
