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The Parliamentary Workplace Support Service has assured its users that confidential information is kept in-house, following an email gaffe revealed during Senate estimates. Senator Jane Hume asked PWSS executives whether people could be assured that their private information would not leak into a broader digital ecosystem, after her office’s receipt
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Taxpayers treated like mugs for a Big Sport stadium stitch-up — while Tasmanians don’t matter at all
Tasmanian politicians are going to blow $1.1 billion on a stadium that will return less than half that in benefits, in a state with urgent health and education needs. It's
The public education system has been unravelling for more than a decade — a class action may be the only remedy. read now...
While the 2025 federal election inquiry has shown there was a clear rise in hostility at election booths around the country, Tim Wilson's electorate of Goldstein seems to have reached
The government has abandoned mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI systems, claiming Australia’s existing legal frameworks are already strong. But this is out of step with public opinion. The post Australia’s national
The Parliamentary Workplace Support Service has assured its users that confidential information is kept in-house, following an email gaffe revealed during Senate estimates. Senator Jane Hume asked PWSS executives whether people could be assured that their private information would not leak into a broader digital ecosystem, after her office’s receipt
This week’s run of estimates hearings is the final intense activity for the federal parliament in 2025, with politicians and bureaucrats now able to prepare for the festive season. It won’t be long, however, before bureaucrats are called back to get pricked, prodded and probed before estimates hearings again. Prime
The Trump team has displayed a lot of unity this time around. So this change of tack is noteworthy. The post Amid Hegseth fallout, Trump returns to what he does
This year the Australian media industry managed to avoid the bloodbath of 2024. But that doesn't mean the picture is rosy. The post Paint by Numbers: A health check on
A widely publicised plan to cut 2,000 Victorian public service jobs under Premier Jacinta Allan has been scaled back to about half that number. A major efficiency review will instead target roles at the edges of the bureaucracy to find $4 billion in savings. Around 1,000 VPS positions are slated
Plus: A new low at the Daily Mail, and News Corp pats its people on the head. The post McClymont defends Gaza edit of O’Brien speech, Labor schtum on subs,
Whatever we may think about our moral responsibility to other nations, the effects of inequality are becoming irreversible. read now...
What gets lost in the discussion about Perth’s unaffordability is how the mining boom has transformed the city into a sprawling ultra-suburbia where quality of life is great only for
Taxpayers treated like mugs for a Big Sport stadium stitch-up — while Tasmanians don’t matter at all
Tasmanian politicians are going to blow $1.1 billion on a stadium that will return less than half that in benefits, in a state with urgent health and education needs. It's