Labor is ramping up pressure on the Greens to help pass its environmental reforms in the last sitting week of the year, and the latest Newspoll holds no good news
A number of public sector employers have received special recognition in the Diversity Council Australia (DCA)’s inclusive employer index for exceeding national benchmarks in at least five categories, including awareness, engagement, inclusive organisational climate, inclusive leadership, inclusive team, and exclusion. Among those workplaces ...
Julie Collins announced new council members whose advice will shape the development of the national food security strategy, ‘Feeding Australia’. The National Food Council includes Andrew Henderson, Barry Irvin, Dr Christopher Downs, Claire McClelland, David Stout, Associate Professor Liz Jackson, Dr Leisa McCarthy, Mel Gatfield, Pat O’Shannassy, Su ...
In 2021, Scott Morrison’s government introduced the News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) — “world-first” legislation designed to make large tech companies (primarily those running search engines and social media websites) pay for Australian news content shared on or linked to their platforms. The code was pushed by most big media
Australia is in danger of being outmatched by its rivals on the AI-augmented battlefield of the future, as Defence takes a cautious approach to the adoption of AI and autonomy, a growing chorus of critics is saying. As armies around the globe increasingly turn to autonomous systems, many of which
When Dr Phil Kowalick joined the Australian Federal Police in 1979, he knew he was signing up for the long haul. “My view back then was unless something drastic happens in my career, I’m in it for life,” he told The Mandarin. Retired from the AFP after serving in intelligence
It was a rarity as defence contracts go – delivered ahead of schedule, within budget and to specification. It was for a modest brick generator shed on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. Commissioned by General Electric, it was efficiently completed by Melbourne-based father-and-son builders Roy and Allan Burton in 1971.
From former prime minister Paul Keating to prominent defence analysts such as Professor Hugh White, opposition to the AUKUS submarine deal shows no let-up. There are two concerns: that the strategic rationale behind the decision to go nuclear powered is flawed, and the eye-watering cost: $368 billion. Never one for understatement,
Australia has numerous security relationships with many nations. The longest-standing and most consequential remains the 1951 ANZUS Treaty, signed by a reluctant United States, mostly because of China. ANZUS – standing for Australia, New Zealand and the US – became a reality in San Francisco on September 1, 1951, just
Like a glistening, Black Sea Leviathan, Australia’s new uncrewed Ghost Shark submarines slip silently through the Indian and Pacific oceans, perhaps detecting and reporting back on hostile warships far out to sea, perhaps sneaking into adversary ports or seaways to lay mines or sensors. Ghost Shark, made by the Australian
The government and defence establishment want Australians to trust that the eye-watering $368 billion price tag for buying and sustaining future nuclear submarines will be money well spent. However, many experts fear the tri-nation AUKUS agreement is the costliest strategic blunder in Australian history. Under the agreement, Australia will buy up
On Friday, I spent an afternoon at the H R Nicholls Society annual conference, as a guest of the Society. It was a gathering of sound economic minds, including former our distinguished weekly columnist Judith Sloan, former federal Treasurer Peter Costello, and current Tasmanian Treasurer (and, I discovered, regular Morning Double Shot reader), Eric ...
Labor is ramping up pressure on the Greens to help pass its environmental reforms in the last sitting week of the year, and the latest Newspoll holds no good news
A number of public sector employers have received special recognition in the Diversity Council Australia (DCA)’s inclusive employer index for exceeding national benchmarks in at least five categories, including awareness, engagement, inclusive organisational climate, inclusive leadership, inclusive team, and exclusion. Among those workplaces ...
Julie Collins announced new council members whose advice will shape the development of the national food security strategy, ‘Feeding Australia’. The National Food Council includes Andrew Henderson, Barry Irvin, Dr Christopher Downs, Claire McClelland, David Stout, Associate Professor Liz Jackson, Dr Leisa McCarthy, Mel Gatfield, Pat O’Shannassy, Su ...
In 2021, Scott Morrison’s government introduced the News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) — “world-first” legislation designed to make large tech companies (primarily those running search engines and social media websites) pay for Australian news content shared on or linked to their platforms. The code was pushed by most big media
Australia is in danger of being outmatched by its rivals on the AI-augmented battlefield of the future, as Defence takes a cautious approach to the adoption of AI and autonomy, a growing chorus of critics is saying. As armies around the globe increasingly turn to autonomous systems, many of which
When Dr Phil Kowalick joined the Australian Federal Police in 1979, he knew he was signing up for the long haul. “My view back then was unless something drastic happens in my career, I’m in it for life,” he told The Mandarin. Retired from the AFP after serving in intelligence
It was a rarity as defence contracts go – delivered ahead of schedule, within budget and to specification. It was for a modest brick generator shed on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. Commissioned by General Electric, it was efficiently completed by Melbourne-based father-and-son builders Roy and Allan Burton in 1971.
From former prime minister Paul Keating to prominent defence analysts such as Professor Hugh White, opposition to the AUKUS submarine deal shows no let-up. There are two concerns: that the strategic rationale behind the decision to go nuclear powered is flawed, and the eye-watering cost: $368 billion. Never one for understatement,
Australia has numerous security relationships with many nations. The longest-standing and most consequential remains the 1951 ANZUS Treaty, signed by a reluctant United States, mostly because of China. ANZUS – standing for Australia, New Zealand and the US – became a reality in San Francisco on September 1, 1951, just
Like a glistening, Black Sea Leviathan, Australia’s new uncrewed Ghost Shark submarines slip silently through the Indian and Pacific oceans, perhaps detecting and reporting back on hostile warships far out to sea, perhaps sneaking into adversary ports or seaways to lay mines or sensors. Ghost Shark, made by the Australian
The government and defence establishment want Australians to trust that the eye-watering $368 billion price tag for buying and sustaining future nuclear submarines will be money well spent. However, many experts fear the tri-nation AUKUS agreement is the costliest strategic blunder in Australian history. Under the agreement, Australia will buy up
On Friday, I spent an afternoon at the H R Nicholls Society annual conference, as a guest of the Society. It was a gathering of sound economic minds, including former our distinguished weekly columnist Judith Sloan, former federal Treasurer Peter Costello, and current Tasmanian Treasurer (and, I discovered, regular Morning Double Shot reader), Eric ...