The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) has ruled against the eSafety Commission in a landmark content removal case. Posts that the eSafety Commission ordered removed from social media platform X in March last year didn’t qualify as cyber abuse, according to the ruling. At the heart of the case is whether
The CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has released a guide to help organisations plan and invest in the right artificial intelligence (AI) projects to avoid costly failures. Organisations are under pressure to do ‘something with AI’, with global investment in the technology projected to reach $980 billion by 2028. But
With inequity and misinformation growing worldwide, we urgently need to close the gap between what we know (from research) and what we do (in policy and practice). The Evidence and Implementation Summit is a leading event that bridges the worlds of policy, research and practice – to improve the lives
Public service leaders need to take advantage of technology that will enhance staff capability, but never lose the human touch when dealing with citizens, experts say. NSW Health secretary Susan Pearce told the public servants attending the recent Mandarin Live conference in Sydney that citizens often assume those who work
The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation allocated $434.5 million to a range of projects without having finalised key governance documents, such as an investment strategy, an Australian National Audit Office report has found. An engagement team from the ANAO reviewed the corporation’s governance processes and found that it was operating without
A state government is under pressure to adopt a redress scheme for the post-colonisation pain and suffering of Aboriginal people. The Yoorrook Justice Commission’s final reports were tabled in Victorian parliament on Tuesday, handing down 100 recommendations across five volumes. Premier Jacinta Allan said the government would carefully consider the ...
I didn’t write this article. Actually, the person who wrote this article didn’t write it either — at least, he never intended to write an article, for The Mandarin or any other platform. He just did me a favour. I recently piloted a new course on neurodiversity at work for
When geopolitics co-mingle with strategic procurements, the results are rarely inexpensive or straightforward. It was last Friday when Defence’s Capability and Sustainment Group gently issued a new industry request for information for a previously scrapped $700 million sovereign communications capability that had been deemed too long in the tooth and
The weather may be miserable, the days short and cold, but for around 100,000 New South Wales public servants, it’s a case of Christmas in July and a happy new financial year, as the 3% cash bump secured during last year’s bargaining starts hitting bank accounts. It’s the second effective
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has announced 15 recipients who will share in $67.5 million over five years for community legal services. In a statement, the A-G said the funding would deliver timely and appropriate legal assistance to women, children and young people, First Nations people, victim-survivors of family and domestic violence,
UK Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG) staff are taking industrial action in response to office closures and the deletion of location-neutral recruitment. Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members at 21 MHCLG offices nationwide began indefinite industrial action short of a strike yesterday. The union voted for
Tasmania’s long-delayed Spirit of Tasmania vessels are a step closer to home, following the handover of Spirit V in Denmark last Wednesday. Director of state ferry operator TT-Line Steve Gilmore got the keys to the vessel less than a month after the procurement saga played a part in bringing down
The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) has ruled against the eSafety Commission in a landmark content removal case. Posts that the eSafety Commission ordered removed from social media platform X in March last year didn’t qualify as cyber abuse, according to the ruling. At the heart of the case is whether
The CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has released a guide to help organisations plan and invest in the right artificial intelligence (AI) projects to avoid costly failures. Organisations are under pressure to do ‘something with AI’, with global investment in the technology projected to reach $980 billion by 2028. But
With inequity and misinformation growing worldwide, we urgently need to close the gap between what we know (from research) and what we do (in policy and practice). The Evidence and Implementation Summit is a leading event that bridges the worlds of policy, research and practice – to improve the lives
Public service leaders need to take advantage of technology that will enhance staff capability, but never lose the human touch when dealing with citizens, experts say. NSW Health secretary Susan Pearce told the public servants attending the recent Mandarin Live conference in Sydney that citizens often assume those who work
The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation allocated $434.5 million to a range of projects without having finalised key governance documents, such as an investment strategy, an Australian National Audit Office report has found. An engagement team from the ANAO reviewed the corporation’s governance processes and found that it was operating without
A state government is under pressure to adopt a redress scheme for the post-colonisation pain and suffering of Aboriginal people. The Yoorrook Justice Commission’s final reports were tabled in Victorian parliament on Tuesday, handing down 100 recommendations across five volumes. Premier Jacinta Allan said the government would carefully consider the ...
I didn’t write this article. Actually, the person who wrote this article didn’t write it either — at least, he never intended to write an article, for The Mandarin or any other platform. He just did me a favour. I recently piloted a new course on neurodiversity at work for
When geopolitics co-mingle with strategic procurements, the results are rarely inexpensive or straightforward. It was last Friday when Defence’s Capability and Sustainment Group gently issued a new industry request for information for a previously scrapped $700 million sovereign communications capability that had been deemed too long in the tooth and
The weather may be miserable, the days short and cold, but for around 100,000 New South Wales public servants, it’s a case of Christmas in July and a happy new financial year, as the 3% cash bump secured during last year’s bargaining starts hitting bank accounts. It’s the second effective
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has announced 15 recipients who will share in $67.5 million over five years for community legal services. In a statement, the A-G said the funding would deliver timely and appropriate legal assistance to women, children and young people, First Nations people, victim-survivors of family and domestic violence,
UK Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG) staff are taking industrial action in response to office closures and the deletion of location-neutral recruitment. Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members at 21 MHCLG offices nationwide began indefinite industrial action short of a strike yesterday. The union voted for
Tasmania’s long-delayed Spirit of Tasmania vessels are a step closer to home, following the handover of Spirit V in Denmark last Wednesday. Director of state ferry operator TT-Line Steve Gilmore got the keys to the vessel less than a month after the procurement saga played a part in bringing down
