Services Australia has pushed back on the Australian National Audit Office’s privacy inquiry, saying the auditor cannot compel companies to disclose which agency-issued credentials have been exposed through breaches in the corporate sector. It’s a bit more than a small problem for major business groups seeking to blame the Albanese
ScrollSafe, a set of resources developed by Orygen to help young people navigate the impacts of social media and screentime, has officially launched in Victoria. The online safety hub and tools were designed to help high school students maintain their mental health and control the time spent engaging with devices.
A new report warns that underfunded translation and interpretation services are costing taxpayers about $2.04 billion each year, almost double the estimate made two years ago. Such services are relied on across the courts, immigration, and policy communication. In a textbook case of the need for caution at the policy
Anti-poverty and human rights groups are calling on the government to abolish the Targeted Compliance Framework, following a scathing report from the Commonwealth ombud yesterday. The ombud’s second report on the Targeted Compliance Framework (TCF) found that welfare recipients were given no reasons or recourse when their welfare payments were
It’s all too easy to get hooked by the online world, to fall headlong into it, to spend hour upon hour immersed in it. Cyberspace has its good, but also much bad. Staying in control of their social media lives is difficult enough for many adults, but for children it can be an especially dangerous world in which to dwell.
Too often children are glued to ...
Each year, CIS gathers the most ridiculous examples of intrusion into our lives, to find the winners of our annual Nanny State Awards. And the 2025 Nannies were difficult to judge, with a shortlist of very strong contenders. Oddly, this year’s crop showed an overriding concern with what we put in our mouths … and for stopping us from enjoying it at all ...
Australia recorded in 2024–25 the largest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979–80, when monitoring began under the National Deaths in Custody Program. In the 2024–25 year, 33 of the 113 deaths in custody were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. The figures have been released by the Australian
The 20 days that Nicolas Sarkozy recently spent behind bars have been turned into a book published today. The 70-year-old former president of France was convicted of criminal conspiracy after a long-running investigation into charges his aides approached Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for campaign funds. ‘Sarko’ was jailed for five years but he was ...
At times like these, the worst instinct in Australian public life comes out to play. As fires broke across the country, the usual brigade on Twitter arrived in ambulance-chaser formation, posting triumphalist warnings that this is what happens when a nation refuses to act on climate.
It is a consoling fantasy. It reassures the faithful that natural ...
Walk into any supermarket in Australia and you’ll find the country’s mood on full display. Not in the specials bin or the bakery aisle, but in front of the cereal wall. A vast, shimmering landscape of muesli, protein puffs, low-GI loops, and sugar-coated virtue. If you earn a respectable income but still hover in front of a $7 box thinking, ‘Maybe not ...
The Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, has revealed new train designs for the nationalised Great British Railways. By next spring, a train looking like a nursery school project will be arriving at a station near you.
According to Alexander, the Union Jack-based design supposedly ‘represents a new railway, casting off the frustrations of the past and ...
Australia’s biggest childcare providers have told an inquiry that systemic failures across the sector had caused harm to children that could have been prevented if governments had acted earlier. Former national children’s commissioner Anne Hollonds — now CEO of the Early Learning and Care Council of Australia — said the
Services Australia has pushed back on the Australian National Audit Office’s privacy inquiry, saying the auditor cannot compel companies to disclose which agency-issued credentials have been exposed through breaches in the corporate sector. It’s a bit more than a small problem for major business groups seeking to blame the Albanese
ScrollSafe, a set of resources developed by Orygen to help young people navigate the impacts of social media and screentime, has officially launched in Victoria. The online safety hub and tools were designed to help high school students maintain their mental health and control the time spent engaging with devices.
A new report warns that underfunded translation and interpretation services are costing taxpayers about $2.04 billion each year, almost double the estimate made two years ago. Such services are relied on across the courts, immigration, and policy communication. In a textbook case of the need for caution at the policy
Anti-poverty and human rights groups are calling on the government to abolish the Targeted Compliance Framework, following a scathing report from the Commonwealth ombud yesterday. The ombud’s second report on the Targeted Compliance Framework (TCF) found that welfare recipients were given no reasons or recourse when their welfare payments were
It’s all too easy to get hooked by the online world, to fall headlong into it, to spend hour upon hour immersed in it. Cyberspace has its good, but also much bad. Staying in control of their social media lives is difficult enough for many adults, but for children it can be an especially dangerous world in which to dwell.
Too often children are glued to ...
Each year, CIS gathers the most ridiculous examples of intrusion into our lives, to find the winners of our annual Nanny State Awards. And the 2025 Nannies were difficult to judge, with a shortlist of very strong contenders. Oddly, this year’s crop showed an overriding concern with what we put in our mouths … and for stopping us from enjoying it at all ...
Australia recorded in 2024–25 the largest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979–80, when monitoring began under the National Deaths in Custody Program. In the 2024–25 year, 33 of the 113 deaths in custody were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. The figures have been released by the Australian
The 20 days that Nicolas Sarkozy recently spent behind bars have been turned into a book published today. The 70-year-old former president of France was convicted of criminal conspiracy after a long-running investigation into charges his aides approached Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for campaign funds. ‘Sarko’ was jailed for five years but he was ...
At times like these, the worst instinct in Australian public life comes out to play. As fires broke across the country, the usual brigade on Twitter arrived in ambulance-chaser formation, posting triumphalist warnings that this is what happens when a nation refuses to act on climate.
It is a consoling fantasy. It reassures the faithful that natural ...
Walk into any supermarket in Australia and you’ll find the country’s mood on full display. Not in the specials bin or the bakery aisle, but in front of the cereal wall. A vast, shimmering landscape of muesli, protein puffs, low-GI loops, and sugar-coated virtue. If you earn a respectable income but still hover in front of a $7 box thinking, ‘Maybe not ...
The Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, has revealed new train designs for the nationalised Great British Railways. By next spring, a train looking like a nursery school project will be arriving at a station near you.
According to Alexander, the Union Jack-based design supposedly ‘represents a new railway, casting off the frustrations of the past and ...
Australia’s biggest childcare providers have told an inquiry that systemic failures across the sector had caused harm to children that could have been prevented if governments had acted earlier. Former national children’s commissioner Anne Hollonds — now CEO of the Early Learning and Care Council of Australia — said the