14+ min ago  (169+ words) Utilities / Transport / Aviation The Victorian government's overhaul of its public transport ticketing platform, including tap-and-go transactions using everyday payment cards for its Myki product, has been hit by a setback after the state's key delivery partner, Conduent, was taken over....

1+ hour, 14+ min ago  (159+ words) Health & Aged Care The federal government has released a health and medical research strategy, described by Health Minister Mark Butler as a landmark plan to improve the health of the nation." Prepared by former Finance head Rosemary Huxtable, the document…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (202+ words) Health & Aged Care Under-pressure health clinic staff combating a'diphtheria'outbreak in remote communities are getting welcome aid from fly-in nurses and doctors under a federal funding package. One of Australia's worst'diphtheria'outbreaks has highlighted a shortfall in health workers in remote communities,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (173+ words) Treasury / Tax / Accounting Tim Wilson has waxed lyrical about resurrecting hope and optimism in the Australian economy, with a plan to improve living standards and prosperity. But, according to the shadow treasurer, Labor's restoration of the APS is not it....

3+ day, 12+ min ago  (167+ words) Health & Aged Care The NSW Department of Health has issued a humbling apology to junior doctors working at Nepean Hospital after its administrators berated clinical staff, already suffering extreme work hours, saying they had signed up for an "implicit acceptance…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (161+ words) The New South Wales government has doubled down on its commitment to repurpose surplus and superseded government stock by maintaining a commitment to divert laptops that would otherwise hit the scrap heap or commercial liquidators to social enterprises struggling with…...

3+ day, 5+ min ago  (127+ words) The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has named three first assistant secretaries " Simon Johnstone, Jeffery Roach, and Neil Hawkins. Louise Parrott has been named general counsel at the Clean Energy Regulator. Christine Castley has replaced Mary Wooldridge as CEO…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (197+ words) Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) analysis of the departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet; Treasury; and Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts found "a range of shortcomings" with their administration of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (202+ words) National Volunteer Week is rightly a time to recognise the 9. 5 million Australians who volunteered in 2025, contributing 618 million hours through formal and informal service. But it should also prompt a harder public administration question: are the governance systems around volunteering keeping…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (166+ words) The second round of royal commission hearings on antisemitism and social cohesion start on Monday, with a focus on the terrorism threat level and security environment in the lead up to the deadly attack last year. Fifteen innocent civilians were…...