Public safety and critical infrastructure agencies should consider developing a pan-Australian data infrastructure to empower a suite of new digitally driven services, according to a recent expert seminar in Canberra. Read More
Safety and emergency services across Australia are being invited to join an ambitious trial of a high bandwidth, mobile network that will underpin a whole suite of high-tech, digitally-enabled, services for police, ambulance and fire first responders. Read More
The Australian government is faced with a real opportunity to deeply reconsider not just public safety infrastructure and capabilities but, more broadly, the many related mission-critical systems government oversee. Read More
Queensland claims it's fixing a misguided machinery-of-government change from the previous regime, but behind the rhetoric is a story of bipartisan public sector reform, informed by complementary expert advice. Read More
Victoria forged two agreements in the US this week, which emergency management commissioner Craig Lapsley says will promote improved service delivery. Read More
Politicians love to announce that their state's fire brigade or ambulance response times have improved, or are the best in the nation. A Victorian audit has questioned whether those targets actually tell anything meaningful about performance. Read More
