Premium Insights and analysis Budget 2024: Peter Dutton swipes Labor’s public service largesse Economy & Industry The Opposition leader sees the expansion of the APS as a waste when resources could be spent on the nation’s Defence priorities instead.
Election mode shots see APS resourcing return as a hot issue March 25, 2024 By Melissa Coade Federal Patrick Gorman urges James Stevens MP to stop entertaining any notion of cutting public service numbers and delivering critical services.
Premium Columnists Why Dutton will slash Defence and Home Affairs to fund his tax cuts for the wealthy February 11, 2024 By Bernard Keane Economy & Industry Dutton says he’ll cut the APS to fund tax cuts for high-income earners. The two departments in the firing line are the ones he ran.
Release the Ghost Bats: Australia tries to sell AUKUS autonomous air superiority February 11, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Defence Algorithms may soon need to choose between saving lives or completing missions, as fewer humans means more room for bombs and fuel.
Premium Columnists The Voice outcome, predictable from the start, shows the hurdle for Australia’s referenda October 19, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Community & Social No referendum will ever achieve a double majority in a majority of states if it does not have near-uniform public approval from the outset.
Premium Insights and analysis National interest? Voice truths forced to wrestle with puerile partisan intent October 13, 2023 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Hysteria, polarisation and identity politics have swirled around the Voice referendum debate. It has been a disheartening performance to observe, probe and question when the issues of substance at stake are so great.
Hundreds of Australians ready to leave Israel for home October 13, 2023 By Kaaren Morrissey and Alex Mitchell Federal Prime minister Anthony Albanese says 1,600 people have registered in Israel or the West Bank, including 19 in Gaza, for repatriation and an ‘extraordinary logistical exercise’ is underway.
Premium Columnists Disability royal commission maps out a powerful pathway October 13, 2023 By Verona Burgess Community & Social The disability royal commission’s epic final report screams throughout the suffering of pain and abuse; it also shows the way forward.
Premium Columnists Dutton’s debacle: How the faux-tough immigration cops lost control of our borders October 6, 2023 By Bernard Keane Editors' Picks Peter Dutton presided over a department that enabled organised crime, sex traffickers and illegal immigrants to treat our borders as porous.
Premium Columnists Robodebt for Indigenous programs? Beyond No, Coalition prepares to slash spending October 5, 2023 By Bernard Keane Community & Social Calls for an audit of Indigenous spending, which the Coalition had little interest in while in power, would be a pretext for cuts to programs.
Migration system enabled worst crimes known to humanity October 4, 2023 By Kat Wong Federal Criminal syndicates have exploited the Australian visa system for human trafficking and other illegal activities, an immigration review by former Victoria Police commissioner Christine Nixon has found.
Premium Columnists The Voice promises more efficient government, but try telling the No camp that October 4, 2023 By Bernard Keane Community & Social Why don’t No supporters want a less powerful, more efficient government? Because that’s not what government is about for them anymore.
Premium Insights and analysis Mike Pezzullo and Peter Dutton’s relationship was a debacle September 26, 2023 By Abul Rizvi Editors' Picks Pezzullo can only be a drag on the urgent need to fix the visa system and get immigration policy back under government control.
Premium Insights and analysis Mike Pezzullo’s career crater gives Albanese licence to demilitarise APS September 26, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Editors' Picks If luck is the confluence of opportunity and circumstance, Albo just hit the respin feature on reworking immigration policy.
Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo stands down over Liberal texts September 25, 2023 By Alex Mitchell Federal Leaked texts indicate Mike Pezzullo used Liberal powerbroker Scott Briggs to wield influence, including suggesting ministerial sackings.
