More than two years on since the operator of a 60-tonne mobile crane had to leap from the cabin as the enormous machine tipped over, a government agency has been charged with breaching federal work health and safety laws. The Director of Public Prosecutions has made a single charge (Category
Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has named David Howes secretary of the Department of Education. Howes has been acting in the role since former secretary Tony Bates resigned in August after the state’s anti-corruption watchdog found Bates had acted “contrary to government policy, procedures, convention, [and] codes of conduct”. Carroll said
The Victorian government officially switches into caretaker mode at 6pm on November 3 –Melbourne Cup day. But senior officials are warning Victorian public servants not to break out the bubbly. Fresh Department of Premier and Cabinet secretary Chris Barrett and Victorian public sector commissioner Brigid Monagle have given the state’s
The end of October marks a critical time for KPMG Australia. That’s when the Department of Finance will finalise its view on whether the firm is sufficiently ethically sound. Both Finance and KPMG Australia agreed they should extend the ban on new tendering for government contracts by a month —
When it comes to protecting young people from harm, good intentions matter. But good intentions on their own do not make tangible, measurable differences in the lives of young people. Australia has no shortage of organisations working to improve young people’s health and wellbeing, and schools are more than willing
Perhaps the headline is too harsh. The main reason the 2026 Intergenerational Report is disappointing is that it falls short of the expectations created by the important improvements made in the 2023 IGR. Rather than building on those advances, the 2026 report appears to reverse the shift towards
The Australian Taxation Office has named a successor to the key leadership position of chief operating officer for the revenue agency following the departure of Jacqui Curtis. Commissioner of Taxation Rob Heferen on Monday told ATO staff in an internal announcement that Amanda Catterole, currently chief executive officer of the
The foreign minister has announced that Australia will continue its proud tradition of more than 70 years of helping shape international maritime standards by pursuing a renomination with the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Penny Wong said that belonging to the IMO would see Australia continue to offer its practical expertise
The Strategic Commissioning Framework has been in place for three years, and we still don’t know if it’s working as intended. The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has found “inconsistencies and gaps” in the reporting of external workforce expenses in an audit of the government’s flagship insourcing scheme. Despite agencies
On an evening in early 2025, a 16-year-old boy attacked staff at the Parkville Youth Justice Precinct. He had a record of violence in custody and two formal warnings from the Youth Parole Board, the second less than a week earlier. Within 50 minutes, senior Youth Justice executives had arranged
There are many career options open to Australian Defence Force members following their years of active service, but one of the least obvious and most important is hardcore underwear design and fabric technology, especially when it comes to keeping women safe at work. Several decades after politically active women in
There is no shortage of talk about AI, what it can do, how quickly it is moving, whether we are keeping up, and, inevitably, when it might take over. A recently released report, “Turning AI into productivity”, creates space for a more useful conversation: not simply about adopting AI, but
More than two years on since the operator of a 60-tonne mobile crane had to leap from the cabin as the enormous machine tipped over, a government agency has been charged with breaching federal work health and safety laws. The Director of Public Prosecutions has made a single charge (Category
Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has named David Howes secretary of the Department of Education. Howes has been acting in the role since former secretary Tony Bates resigned in August after the state’s anti-corruption watchdog found Bates had acted “contrary to government policy, procedures, convention, [and] codes of conduct”. Carroll said
The Victorian government officially switches into caretaker mode at 6pm on November 3 –Melbourne Cup day. But senior officials are warning Victorian public servants not to break out the bubbly. Fresh Department of Premier and Cabinet secretary Chris Barrett and Victorian public sector commissioner Brigid Monagle have given the state’s
The end of October marks a critical time for KPMG Australia. That’s when the Department of Finance will finalise its view on whether the firm is sufficiently ethically sound. Both Finance and KPMG Australia agreed they should extend the ban on new tendering for government contracts by a month —
When it comes to protecting young people from harm, good intentions matter. But good intentions on their own do not make tangible, measurable differences in the lives of young people. Australia has no shortage of organisations working to improve young people’s health and wellbeing, and schools are more than willing
Perhaps the headline is too harsh. The main reason the 2026 Intergenerational Report is disappointing is that it falls short of the expectations created by the important improvements made in the 2023 IGR. Rather than building on those advances, the 2026 report appears to reverse the shift towards
The Australian Taxation Office has named a successor to the key leadership position of chief operating officer for the revenue agency following the departure of Jacqui Curtis. Commissioner of Taxation Rob Heferen on Monday told ATO staff in an internal announcement that Amanda Catterole, currently chief executive officer of the
The foreign minister has announced that Australia will continue its proud tradition of more than 70 years of helping shape international maritime standards by pursuing a renomination with the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Penny Wong said that belonging to the IMO would see Australia continue to offer its practical expertise
The Strategic Commissioning Framework has been in place for three years, and we still don’t know if it’s working as intended. The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has found “inconsistencies and gaps” in the reporting of external workforce expenses in an audit of the government’s flagship insourcing scheme. Despite agencies
On an evening in early 2025, a 16-year-old boy attacked staff at the Parkville Youth Justice Precinct. He had a record of violence in custody and two formal warnings from the Youth Parole Board, the second less than a week earlier. Within 50 minutes, senior Youth Justice executives had arranged
There are many career options open to Australian Defence Force members following their years of active service, but one of the least obvious and most important is hardcore underwear design and fabric technology, especially when it comes to keeping women safe at work. Several decades after politically active women in
There is no shortage of talk about AI, what it can do, how quickly it is moving, whether we are keeping up, and, inevitably, when it might take over. A recently released report, “Turning AI into productivity”, creates space for a more useful conversation: not simply about adopting AI, but
