article-body Australia’s chief medical officer (CMO) and interim head of the Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has announced his retirement. Professor Paul Kelly was appointed CMO in 2020, succeeding Dr Brendan Murphy, who had stepped up to become the head of the Department of Health and Aged Care. Kelly
article-body An alliance of business groups, unions, social services and community organisations are agitating for all major political parties to commit to reforms to Australia’s skills-recognition system ahead of the next federal election. The group released a workplace strategy blueprint on Tuesday outlining a plan to maximise the under-utilised skills
article-body Queensland’s most senior mandarins have committed to full cooperation with the state’s landmark Truth Telling and Healing Inquiry. The state’s police commissioner joined six directors-general to discuss the public service’s role in colonising the state. Chair Joshua Creamer said this session was intended to open lines of communication with
article-body The Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra has switched on a new geothermal heat exchange system, in a national first. Featuring 128 kms of pipe and 216 vertical closed loop boreholes, the environmentally conscious system is being flaunted by politicians as a fitting tribute to preserve the memory of
article-body With an increasing number of organisations prioritising sustainability, innovative thinking is needed to help occupiers and landlords transform their ambitions into tangible results. One key area for efficiencies: cleaning. “Cleaning represents one of the largest expenses for any building – usually two-to-three times more than other ...
article-body The Department of Parliamentary Services has declined to confirm whether it was the target of a visit by the National Anti-Corruption Commission last week. NACC investigators went to Parliament House to seek further information to assist with an ongoing investigation but neither the DPS nor the NACC would confirm
article-body It used to be that modern educators would pull their hair out at the prospect of children being cognitively pre-militarised through toy weapons, like play guns, plastic or lead soldiers, model aircraft and Dinky Toys. Today, the military is pulling its hair out over what to do about cheap
article-body Australia’s recently appointed national cyber security coordinator, Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, has acknowledged concerns about exploitable vulnerabilities in contemporary and connected technologies like electric vehicles, smart home devices, and the Internet of Things are real and will likely have to be addressed by secure ...
article-body The Canadian government is facing fresh criticism over changes to public servants’ flexible work arrangements. Canadian public servants must spend at least three days a week in the office from this Wednesday. Executives are expected on site four days a week. The Canadian Treasury board suggest this will increase
article-body UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he wants a bigger, more honest public service. Addressing the National Labor conference, Starmer said the country’s public service had been “decimated” by budget cuts. He said there would be “no return to Tory austerity; we will rebuild our public services, protect
article-body The state government has committed $2 million annually to the Queensland Centre of Excellence in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Mental Health (QCEAIDH). A new centre of excellence to address the mental health of people living with an intellectual or developmental disability, which has been co-designed with the community, hopes
article-body After World War II, public figures like Albert Einstein and Jawaharlal Nehru supported the eternal idea of a world government to foster global peace and security. Today, scholars promote similar ideas, though under different banners such as “cosmopolitan democracy.” However, such proposals are often discarded quickly among academics, ...
article-body Australia’s chief medical officer (CMO) and interim head of the Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has announced his retirement. Professor Paul Kelly was appointed CMO in 2020, succeeding Dr Brendan Murphy, who had stepped up to become the head of the Department of Health and Aged Care. Kelly
article-body An alliance of business groups, unions, social services and community organisations are agitating for all major political parties to commit to reforms to Australia’s skills-recognition system ahead of the next federal election. The group released a workplace strategy blueprint on Tuesday outlining a plan to maximise the under-utilised skills
article-body Queensland’s most senior mandarins have committed to full cooperation with the state’s landmark Truth Telling and Healing Inquiry. The state’s police commissioner joined six directors-general to discuss the public service’s role in colonising the state. Chair Joshua Creamer said this session was intended to open lines of communication with
article-body The Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra has switched on a new geothermal heat exchange system, in a national first. Featuring 128 kms of pipe and 216 vertical closed loop boreholes, the environmentally conscious system is being flaunted by politicians as a fitting tribute to preserve the memory of
article-body With an increasing number of organisations prioritising sustainability, innovative thinking is needed to help occupiers and landlords transform their ambitions into tangible results. One key area for efficiencies: cleaning. “Cleaning represents one of the largest expenses for any building – usually two-to-three times more than other ...
article-body The Department of Parliamentary Services has declined to confirm whether it was the target of a visit by the National Anti-Corruption Commission last week. NACC investigators went to Parliament House to seek further information to assist with an ongoing investigation but neither the DPS nor the NACC would confirm
article-body It used to be that modern educators would pull their hair out at the prospect of children being cognitively pre-militarised through toy weapons, like play guns, plastic or lead soldiers, model aircraft and Dinky Toys. Today, the military is pulling its hair out over what to do about cheap
article-body Australia’s recently appointed national cyber security coordinator, Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, has acknowledged concerns about exploitable vulnerabilities in contemporary and connected technologies like electric vehicles, smart home devices, and the Internet of Things are real and will likely have to be addressed by secure ...
article-body The Canadian government is facing fresh criticism over changes to public servants’ flexible work arrangements. Canadian public servants must spend at least three days a week in the office from this Wednesday. Executives are expected on site four days a week. The Canadian Treasury board suggest this will increase
article-body UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he wants a bigger, more honest public service. Addressing the National Labor conference, Starmer said the country’s public service had been “decimated” by budget cuts. He said there would be “no return to Tory austerity; we will rebuild our public services, protect
article-body The state government has committed $2 million annually to the Queensland Centre of Excellence in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Mental Health (QCEAIDH). A new centre of excellence to address the mental health of people living with an intellectual or developmental disability, which has been co-designed with the community, hopes
article-body After World War II, public figures like Albert Einstein and Jawaharlal Nehru supported the eternal idea of a world government to foster global peace and security. Today, scholars promote similar ideas, though under different banners such as “cosmopolitan democracy.” However, such proposals are often discarded quickly among academics, ...
