Members of Queensland’s landmark truth-telling and healing inquiry have been announced as the government works to take bigger steps in closing the gap for First Nations people. The Path to Treaty Act establishes the inquiry and a First Nations Treaty Institute will provide a platform to listen and record stories
At UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s 2023 AI Safety Summit, the final communique noted that governments needed to keep in mind an overriding commitment to make their AI regulatory and policy decisions “for good and for all”. It’s not a bad mantra. And it stands as a powerful reminder of
In today’s digital age, where data is generated at an unprecedented rate, the management of information has become a critical challenge for governments worldwide. In mid-March, Information Awareness Week took place, bringing to light the challenges and opportunities in records management within the Australian Public Service (APS), highlighting the critical
A backlog of more than 1 million claims made to Services Australia is set to return to normal levels by the middle of the year following a mass recruitment drive. Figures have shown more than 500,000 Centrelink and Medicare claims have been processed and removed from the overall backlog in
The Australian Taxation Office would have referred the PwC tax policy confidentiality breach to the tax agent regulator earlier had it better understood the possible impact of the publicity that followed. Deputy commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn told the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services that the ATO saw the
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told the Senate that KPMG is not the subject of any audit investigation resulting from its work assessing the financial strength of Paladin-related entities. Senator Barbara Pocock asked ASIC if was aware of the consultancy doing what she termed “false audits” of two
Generation Z (or Gen Z) are defined as a demographic of individuals who were born between the years 1996 and 2010. And they are now beginning to enter the workforce and shaping it in interesting ways. How is this changing workplaces in the public sector? Digital natives and service to
How hollow are the clichéd management words said to any officer who has been a victim of organisational restructure, enforced redundancy, cuts to training budgets, forced casualisation or stonewalling in the HR department in response to a grievance! How hypocritical the phrase sounds when entire workgroups are obliged to apply
Senior Executive Service Band 1 Juliette Hubbard Juliette Hubbard has been promoted to regional/branch manager at the National Indigenous Australians Agency. Amara Torres Santelices becomes assistant secretary, governance branch, at Treasury. Daniel Slater has been made general counsel at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal within Attorney-General’s. ...
Whether the use of capsicum spray (OC spray) by Victoria Police or PSOs is necessary or proportionate has come into question following a thematic review conducted by IBAC, which also found evidence of incomplete investigations into complaints and attempted cover-ups. IBAC’s independent review examined the standard of police aftercare, and
Top UK civil servant Sir Matthew Rycroft CBE has spent the past few days meeting with senior mandarins responsible for Australia’s security and justice portfolios as part of an annual dialogue. The permanent secretary for the UK’s Home Office was in Melbourne last Friday, and Canberra on Monday and Tuesday.
According to Anthony Albanese, defence, climate change and economic opportunity are all part of the special relationship Australia and Papua New Guinea share, and that the future of both nations “will go forward together”. Ahead of his two-day journey on the Kokoda trail alongside PNG counterpart James Marape, the Australian
Members of Queensland’s landmark truth-telling and healing inquiry have been announced as the government works to take bigger steps in closing the gap for First Nations people. The Path to Treaty Act establishes the inquiry and a First Nations Treaty Institute will provide a platform to listen and record stories
At UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s 2023 AI Safety Summit, the final communique noted that governments needed to keep in mind an overriding commitment to make their AI regulatory and policy decisions “for good and for all”. It’s not a bad mantra. And it stands as a powerful reminder of
In today’s digital age, where data is generated at an unprecedented rate, the management of information has become a critical challenge for governments worldwide. In mid-March, Information Awareness Week took place, bringing to light the challenges and opportunities in records management within the Australian Public Service (APS), highlighting the critical
A backlog of more than 1 million claims made to Services Australia is set to return to normal levels by the middle of the year following a mass recruitment drive. Figures have shown more than 500,000 Centrelink and Medicare claims have been processed and removed from the overall backlog in
The Australian Taxation Office would have referred the PwC tax policy confidentiality breach to the tax agent regulator earlier had it better understood the possible impact of the publicity that followed. Deputy commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn told the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services that the ATO saw the
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told the Senate that KPMG is not the subject of any audit investigation resulting from its work assessing the financial strength of Paladin-related entities. Senator Barbara Pocock asked ASIC if was aware of the consultancy doing what she termed “false audits” of two
Generation Z (or Gen Z) are defined as a demographic of individuals who were born between the years 1996 and 2010. And they are now beginning to enter the workforce and shaping it in interesting ways. How is this changing workplaces in the public sector? Digital natives and service to
How hollow are the clichéd management words said to any officer who has been a victim of organisational restructure, enforced redundancy, cuts to training budgets, forced casualisation or stonewalling in the HR department in response to a grievance! How hypocritical the phrase sounds when entire workgroups are obliged to apply
Senior Executive Service Band 1 Juliette Hubbard Juliette Hubbard has been promoted to regional/branch manager at the National Indigenous Australians Agency. Amara Torres Santelices becomes assistant secretary, governance branch, at Treasury. Daniel Slater has been made general counsel at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal within Attorney-General’s. ...
Whether the use of capsicum spray (OC spray) by Victoria Police or PSOs is necessary or proportionate has come into question following a thematic review conducted by IBAC, which also found evidence of incomplete investigations into complaints and attempted cover-ups. IBAC’s independent review examined the standard of police aftercare, and
Top UK civil servant Sir Matthew Rycroft CBE has spent the past few days meeting with senior mandarins responsible for Australia’s security and justice portfolios as part of an annual dialogue. The permanent secretary for the UK’s Home Office was in Melbourne last Friday, and Canberra on Monday and Tuesday.
According to Anthony Albanese, defence, climate change and economic opportunity are all part of the special relationship Australia and Papua New Guinea share, and that the future of both nations “will go forward together”. Ahead of his two-day journey on the Kokoda trail alongside PNG counterpart James Marape, the Australian
