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Payne: Failed peace process caused Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis

Defence

Marise Payne has expressed Australia’s ‘deep concern’ for Afghanistan during what she has described as a critical time of unresolved politics.

‘Please, never again’: former Health secretary urges governments to ramp up preparedness following COVID-19

By Shannon Jenkins

Federal

Jane Halton and Bill Bowtell cite lack of preparedness and failure to learn from past events as reasons for Australia’s COVID-19 response falling short.

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[Watch Now] Mandarin Talks: The challenge for government departments to be heard

By Chris Johnson

Career Matters

Join The Mandarin’s Chris Johnson and Melissa Coade and award-winning television journalist, writer and commentator Virginia Haussegger AM to discuss communication challenges from a media…

Ross Garnaut says Australia can’t reset without respect for knowledge

By Shannon Jenkins

Economy & Industry

Garnaut warns that democracy is being challenged by a decline in knowledge, as well as a decline in 'respect for the role of knowledge in…

Continuing to shrink the public service is ‘bad economics’, says Per Capita’s Emma Dawson

By Shannon Jenkins

Economy & Industry

Speaking at a Mandarin Talks webinar on Wednesday to discuss their new book ‘What Happens Next?’, the authors rejected the myth that having a big…

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Payne: Failed peace process caused Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis

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‘Please, never again’: former Health secretary urges governments to ramp up preparedness following COVID-19

[Watch Now] Mandarin Talks: The challenge for government departments to be heard

Ross Garnaut says Australia can’t reset without respect for knowledge

Continuing to shrink the public service is ‘bad economics’, says Per Capita’s Emma Dawson