ICAC NSW’s Operation Wyvern will grow include whether Transport for NSW employees and their collaborators have “undermined confidence in public administration”. Chief commissioner John Hatzistergos announced the expanded terms of reference on Friday afternoon. “The scope of the public inquiry [will] be expanded to also investigate an allegation ...
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a report by a public inquiry says. The UK recorded more than 230,000 deaths from COVID-19, a similar death rate
Sir Richard Chaffey Baker was the first president of the Senate, in 1901, and held that position for the six years he spent in the Australian Parliament, retiring from politics in 1906 for reasons of ill-health. He died in 1911. But it was also his work leading up to Federation
The Department of Transport and Planning in Victoria had five years to make its trams more accessible for disabled people, but has failed, a report from the Victorian Auditor General’s Office has found. VAGO’s audit engagement team discovered the transport authorities have only met five of 10 areas that emerged
The ANAO has made eight recommendations for the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) to uplift its program delivery and project management. Using high-level criteria to conduct a performance audit of the Australian Antarctic program within the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water (DCCEEW), the audit office issued a
Society’s understanding of history, long relied on by institutions and educators, is at growing risk of distortion as poor-quality material feeds into AI systems and is then recycled by newer models. And then there’s the cannibalism. In a landmark speech delivered to the Sir Vincent Fairfax Oration in Sydney on
Applications are invited for $3.8 million in federal funding to support ex-service organisations and community groups to improve the wellbeing of veterans and their families. Grants will be available for small programs ($50,000) and large programs ($200,000), and will support veterans in the community with a broad range of interests
Senior Executive Service Band 2 The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has promoted Justin Whyatt to ambassador for cyber affairs and critical technology. Bevan Murray and Olivia Gossip are now first assistant parliamentary counsels. Band 1 The Federal Court of Australia has promoted Susannah Stone to national judicial registrar. The
The head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has again put civilian and Australian Defence Force staff on notice that public parading of their security clearances and vetting credentials on employment platforms is viewed poorly by counterintelligence authorities. In a doubling down on ASIO’s mid-year report, titled Counting and Countering:
The federal opposition has pointed the finger at alarming system failures that have allowed early learning and childcare centres to be infiltrated by child sex offenders. Police, law enforcement, and child safety expert witnesses have appeared before a Senate inquiry into the quality and safety of early childhood education this
A key internal report has firmly warned ministers and Australian Public Service agency chiefs that maintaining a Canberra-centric approach to IT and digital recruitment will likely hobble future projects and legacy uplift options as existing platforms come to the end of their life. That’s the bleak outlook offered by the
Canadian public servants have used 14% more sick days since they were forced back to the office last year. Data obtained by the Ottawa Citizen shows sick leave jumped from 209,395 in September 2023 to 238,668 days in September 2024. Public servants took 129,570 sick days in September 2020, when
ICAC NSW’s Operation Wyvern will grow include whether Transport for NSW employees and their collaborators have “undermined confidence in public administration”. Chief commissioner John Hatzistergos announced the expanded terms of reference on Friday afternoon. “The scope of the public inquiry [will] be expanded to also investigate an allegation ...
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a report by a public inquiry says. The UK recorded more than 230,000 deaths from COVID-19, a similar death rate
Sir Richard Chaffey Baker was the first president of the Senate, in 1901, and held that position for the six years he spent in the Australian Parliament, retiring from politics in 1906 for reasons of ill-health. He died in 1911. But it was also his work leading up to Federation
The Department of Transport and Planning in Victoria had five years to make its trams more accessible for disabled people, but has failed, a report from the Victorian Auditor General’s Office has found. VAGO’s audit engagement team discovered the transport authorities have only met five of 10 areas that emerged
The ANAO has made eight recommendations for the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) to uplift its program delivery and project management. Using high-level criteria to conduct a performance audit of the Australian Antarctic program within the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water (DCCEEW), the audit office issued a
Society’s understanding of history, long relied on by institutions and educators, is at growing risk of distortion as poor-quality material feeds into AI systems and is then recycled by newer models. And then there’s the cannibalism. In a landmark speech delivered to the Sir Vincent Fairfax Oration in Sydney on
Applications are invited for $3.8 million in federal funding to support ex-service organisations and community groups to improve the wellbeing of veterans and their families. Grants will be available for small programs ($50,000) and large programs ($200,000), and will support veterans in the community with a broad range of interests
Senior Executive Service Band 2 The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has promoted Justin Whyatt to ambassador for cyber affairs and critical technology. Bevan Murray and Olivia Gossip are now first assistant parliamentary counsels. Band 1 The Federal Court of Australia has promoted Susannah Stone to national judicial registrar. The
The head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has again put civilian and Australian Defence Force staff on notice that public parading of their security clearances and vetting credentials on employment platforms is viewed poorly by counterintelligence authorities. In a doubling down on ASIO’s mid-year report, titled Counting and Countering:
The federal opposition has pointed the finger at alarming system failures that have allowed early learning and childcare centres to be infiltrated by child sex offenders. Police, law enforcement, and child safety expert witnesses have appeared before a Senate inquiry into the quality and safety of early childhood education this
A key internal report has firmly warned ministers and Australian Public Service agency chiefs that maintaining a Canberra-centric approach to IT and digital recruitment will likely hobble future projects and legacy uplift options as existing platforms come to the end of their life. That’s the bleak outlook offered by the
Canadian public servants have used 14% more sick days since they were forced back to the office last year. Data obtained by the Ottawa Citizen shows sick leave jumped from 209,395 in September 2023 to 238,668 days in September 2024. Public servants took 129,570 sick days in September 2020, when
