Premium Insights and analysis Parliament workplace behaviour? Unfinished business Culture There is clearly unfinished business from the previous parliament when it comes to changing behaviours in a parliamentary workplace, following some of the rhetoric exhibited
Election 2022: Coalition’s election costings requires departmental cuts May 17, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Federal Public servants will be asked to find more expenditure cuts in their departments to help pay for the Coalition’s $2.2 billion in election commitments, according
Premium Insights and analysis Election 2022: Red and Blue books that really aren’t May 16, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks Red Book? Blue Book? There are no such things. Incoming government briefings are printed on standard white paper with black ink. There might, perhaps, be
Premium Insights and analysis Election 2022: Red Book, Blue Book considerations for Treasury and Finance May 9, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks An incoming government following the May 21 election will be greeted with concerning economic news and some grim forecasts from Treasury and the Department of
Premium Insights and analysis Red Book, Blue Book — the importance of incoming government briefs May 3, 2022 By Ian McPhedran Editors' Picks For several months, small teams of officials in all Australian government departments have been drafting the top-secret ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Books of incoming government briefs
Premium Insights and analysis Election 2022: Labor’s plan to audit wasteful spending May 3, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks A 13-page document detailing the ALP’s economic management philosophy contains certain measures the opposition says are designed to curb wasteful spending. One of these measures
Premium Insights and analysis What’s the point of advisory bodies if they’re ignored? April 11, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks Should a government maintain an advisory body if it does not want to take advice from it? The question is more pertinent after the commonwealth
Premium Columnists Not a mean and tricky budget, but certainly shamelessly political April 1, 2022 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks This week’s Budget 2022-23 might have the shortest audience attention span of any in recent memory. Waved through by the opposition, drowned out by the
New ideas bring digital to the fore in election-eve budget, but meaningful change remains elusive March 30, 2022 By Eloise Keating Economy & Industry In the lead up to this year’s federal budget, we consistently heard two key themes in our conversations with small business owners and startup founders,
Budget a pre-election cash splash: Labor March 30, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Federal While the federal government believes it has targeted appropriate areas for financial assistance in the budget, the federal opposition has branded the fiscal announcement a
Premium Columnists What the budget says about us and our economy March 30, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks Amongst discussions of winners and losers, it is easy to lose sight of the big picture – what the budget tells us about Australia and
Lumpy skin and trees for the queen: Extracts from the fine print March 30, 2022 By Jason Murphy Editors' Picks Here’s something they never tell you about the budget. It’s like the bottom of a kid’s schoolbag at the end of term — full of
Budget spend for policies impacting women acknowledges major group driving nation’s economic recovery March 30, 2022 By Melissa Coade Economy & Industry Australia’s $2.1 billion women’s budget statement, shared across the portfolios overseen by minister for women Marise Payne, minister for women’s safety, families and social services
Josh Frydenberg’s rainbow of revenue March 29, 2022 By Bernard Keane Editors' Picks Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has, as the saying goes, been hit in the arse with a rainbow — a colossal windfall of revenue that will increase
