Long before Medicare, federal election campaigns were already reshaping health as a Commonwealth responsibility. Between 1913 and 1929, Australian leaders across parties began to reposition health from a marginal federal concern to an emerging national priority. Early election debates focused narrowly on quarantine, disease control, and border ...
The honour of being Australia’s highest-taxing government isn’t perhaps one that is actively sought by state politicians — at least, not the ones in the major parties — but ministers of the Victorian Labor Party have worked assiduously to wrest the title from traditional powerhouse NSW in recent years.Go back
The Australian Human Rights Commission has endorsed the decision of the Commonwealth ombud to review the use of the integrated assessment tool in aged care. A review is underway to determine whether the IAT is being used appropriately to assess the level of care an older person needs as part
Public servants across New South Wales were issued a major warning about cabinet confidentiality conventions just days before the state government declared a “significant cyber incident” over the exfiltration of a cache of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents, triggering police raids and the arrest of a Treasury official. As
The Australian Taxation Office has hit the market for an upgrade to its digital identity security toolset, which can distinguish real-life, actual humans from AI-augmented deep-faked duds when verifying who is actually applying for a government-issued digital identity credential, these days known as myID. The ATO on Wednesday last week
When Minister for Health, Ageing, and the NDIS Mark Butler addressed the National Press Club last week, he started — as is often prudent for politicians about to announce potentially unpopular policy — with the promise of cash. “This budget will invest three billion dollars in delivering more beds, more
All Speccie readers know there is a particular kind of intellectual courage that costs nothing. It loves prudence, develops complexity from the ‘bleedin obvious’, and always concludes that more diplomacy, more patience, and more accommodation is the answer. It is the courage of the seminar room, the enterprise of the HR department, and the bravery of ...
He was the man with the most even temperament that I have ever known.
Knowing my father as a person didn’t really start until I went to university. Before that, I knew him simply as ‘my Dad’, which was a thoroughly good experience. Dad was measured in his speech and even in tone. If he did raise his voice (which was rare), the contrast seemed like the ...
Canada is taking risks with its sovereignty on the West Coast, and the rest of North America should be paying attention. Neither the provincial government of British Columbia, nor the Canadian federal government are willing to name it.
The elected governments of Canada and BC are losing their authority over land in the province, by their own hand and ...
What if you prayed relentlessly – ‘God, please design the perfect money for us humans on Earth…’
The ‘perfect money’, you tell God, needs to have the following attributes:
Durability: It should be chemically inert, hence almost indestructible – it should not rust, tarnish, or decay, so it can be passed on from generation to generation, for centuries, ...
Opposition leader Angus Taylor has defended preferencing One Nation ahead of high-profile independent Michelle Milthorpe in the Farrer May 9 byelection, declaring this was “the least worst option”. In a close result, preferences from the Liberals and Nationals could be vital in getting One Nation’s David Farley over the line,
On the morning of the 28 April 1986, a worker at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden set off the radiation alarm. The bottom of his shoe was contaminated. But the contamination hadn’t come from Forsmark. It had drifted from a reactor 780 miles to the south-east, still burning after it had exploded two days earlier: Unit Four at Chernobyl. The ...
Long before Medicare, federal election campaigns were already reshaping health as a Commonwealth responsibility. Between 1913 and 1929, Australian leaders across parties began to reposition health from a marginal federal concern to an emerging national priority. Early election debates focused narrowly on quarantine, disease control, and border ...
The honour of being Australia’s highest-taxing government isn’t perhaps one that is actively sought by state politicians — at least, not the ones in the major parties — but ministers of the Victorian Labor Party have worked assiduously to wrest the title from traditional powerhouse NSW in recent years.Go back
The Australian Human Rights Commission has endorsed the decision of the Commonwealth ombud to review the use of the integrated assessment tool in aged care. A review is underway to determine whether the IAT is being used appropriately to assess the level of care an older person needs as part
Public servants across New South Wales were issued a major warning about cabinet confidentiality conventions just days before the state government declared a “significant cyber incident” over the exfiltration of a cache of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents, triggering police raids and the arrest of a Treasury official. As
The Australian Taxation Office has hit the market for an upgrade to its digital identity security toolset, which can distinguish real-life, actual humans from AI-augmented deep-faked duds when verifying who is actually applying for a government-issued digital identity credential, these days known as myID. The ATO on Wednesday last week
When Minister for Health, Ageing, and the NDIS Mark Butler addressed the National Press Club last week, he started — as is often prudent for politicians about to announce potentially unpopular policy — with the promise of cash. “This budget will invest three billion dollars in delivering more beds, more
All Speccie readers know there is a particular kind of intellectual courage that costs nothing. It loves prudence, develops complexity from the ‘bleedin obvious’, and always concludes that more diplomacy, more patience, and more accommodation is the answer. It is the courage of the seminar room, the enterprise of the HR department, and the bravery of ...
He was the man with the most even temperament that I have ever known.
Knowing my father as a person didn’t really start until I went to university. Before that, I knew him simply as ‘my Dad’, which was a thoroughly good experience. Dad was measured in his speech and even in tone. If he did raise his voice (which was rare), the contrast seemed like the ...
Canada is taking risks with its sovereignty on the West Coast, and the rest of North America should be paying attention. Neither the provincial government of British Columbia, nor the Canadian federal government are willing to name it.
The elected governments of Canada and BC are losing their authority over land in the province, by their own hand and ...
What if you prayed relentlessly – ‘God, please design the perfect money for us humans on Earth…’
The ‘perfect money’, you tell God, needs to have the following attributes:
Durability: It should be chemically inert, hence almost indestructible – it should not rust, tarnish, or decay, so it can be passed on from generation to generation, for centuries, ...
Opposition leader Angus Taylor has defended preferencing One Nation ahead of high-profile independent Michelle Milthorpe in the Farrer May 9 byelection, declaring this was “the least worst option”. In a close result, preferences from the Liberals and Nationals could be vital in getting One Nation’s David Farley over the line,
On the morning of the 28 April 1986, a worker at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden set off the radiation alarm. The bottom of his shoe was contaminated. But the contamination hadn’t come from Forsmark. It had drifted from a reactor 780 miles to the south-east, still burning after it had exploded two days earlier: Unit Four at Chernobyl. The ...