16+ hour, 13+ min ago  (219+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. Treasury / Tax / Accounting Senator Barbara Pocock has labelled accounting firm KPMG as profit-hungry and unfit for government work following a stormy committee hearing. Pocock said that the day-long hearing featuring evidence from…...

19+ hour, 6+ min ago  (185+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. Intelligence Agencies / Police / Crime For the first time in Australia, police will roll out real-time facial recognition cameras in public areas to scan crowds for suspects and criminals." The technology, which uses…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (230+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. Accounting firm KPMG has no sound basis to refuse access to documents related to confidentiality breaches to a powerful committee, according to a letter from Senate clerk Richard Pye. Senators who are…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (186+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. Utilities / Transport / Aviation Snowy Hydro 2. 0 " the Turnbull government's one-time poster child for real- to near-time dispatchable renewable energy generation " has again hit exceedingly difficult ground in progressing. A fresh Australian National Audit…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (165+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. " " has been promoted to deputy CEO of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. Nicholas'Parkyn is now the Federal Court of Australia's district registrar for SA and NT. The Federal Court has also promoted…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (204+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. Australian Signals Directorate director-general Abigail Bradshaw has endorsed the rapid adoption of AI within the public service, saying leaders need to "be brave. Speaking on a panel at The Mandarin's Future Ready…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (265+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. When women became the majority of recipients in the 2023 King's Birthday honours list for the first time since the Order of Australia was established in 1975, it was rightly celebrated as a significant…...

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2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (265+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. Australia's diplomacy on Japanese family law reform has achieved something real. Japan's move away from a post-divorce system in which parental authority was held by only one parent is significant, and Australia…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (269+ words) Defence & Veterans" Affairs When Janice Silby joined the Department of Veterans" Affairs, she"d barely met anyone who"d served. Now, her work as South Australia"s deputy commissioner for veterans" affairs has earned her a Public Service Medal (PSM)....