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5 days ago | 
themandarin.com.au | Joshua Gliddon
Joshua Gliddon Jun 23, 2025 6 min read There’s an old software developer term, usually reduced to a four-letter acronym to avoid causing offence, that still gets bandied around today when someone asks a technical question they could easily have answered themselves. That acronym? RTFM – Read The F–king Manual. What’s this got to do with the way agencies and departments approach The Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) Essential Eight, and the accompanying Maturity Models? Quite a bit, says...
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1 week ago | 
themandarin.com.au | Joshua Gliddon
Digital sovereignty is top of mind for many nations, including Australia. In part, this can be traced back to the supply chain collapse experienced during the pandemic and, more pertinently, the current fraught geopolitical landscape. The problem is, digital sovereignty is hard and, in many cases, infeasible.
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1 month ago | 
smartcompany.com.au | Joshua Gliddon
“Our goal isn’t to make money out of this thing”, says Adam Schwab. The thing Schwab is talking about is the podcast he co-hosts with Adir Shiffman, which focuses on business, technology, leadership and startups. The pair is coming up on their hundredth show of The Contrarians with Adam and Adir, with new, almost two-hour-long episodes dropping weekly. Both Schwab and Shiffman have form. Schwab started out in law before branching into the corporate world.
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1 month ago | 
smartcompany.com.au | Joshua Gliddon
“No one wants to touch anything nuclear with a barge pole in Australia,” says Warren McKenzie, “and there’s this assumption fusion falls into the general nuclear basket”. What it comes down to is the perception, both with the public and with policymakers, anything nuclear is automatically bad, and Australia shouldn’t invest in it. The problem is one of optics and a general lack of understanding around nuclear technologies.
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1 month ago | 
themandarin.com.au | Joshua Gliddon
The raw facts are sobering. According to a recent Business Council of Australia report, Achieving a Net Zero Economy, unchecked climate change over the next 50 years to 2070 would represent a $3.4 trillion loss to Australia’s GDP at net present value.
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1 month ago | 
themandarin.com.au | Joshua Gliddon
The ghosts of governments past haunt Australian housing policy in 2025. From Menzies’ 1964 First Homeowners’ Grant Scheme through to Paul Keating and his introduction of capital gains tax, and then John Howard and Peter Costello’s changes to the capital gains regime in 1999, we are today in terms of housing affordability, a problem nearly 70 years in the making.
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1 month ago | 
acuitymag.com | Joshua Gliddon |Sholto Macpherson
Tristan Tan CA has expertise across multiple disciplines. He has worked in taxation for more than 10 years and is currently a commercial associate director with IFM Investors. He’s also studying his Juris Doctor (a graduate-level law degree that provide the necessary foundation for practising law in Australia) and is a chartered financial analyst (CFA) Level II candidate, studying the second level of the CFA program.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
themandarin.com.au | Joshua Gliddon
Joshua Gliddon Mar 20, 2025 4 min read AI’s role in all levels of government isn’t about replacing humans but augmenting the innate creativity and problem-solving abilities people have with machine companions. AI eliminates the drudge work, the rote tasks and the low-level functions, allowing people to flourish and deliver real value to their organisations and the public they serve, says Mike Sicilia, executive vice president, Oracle Industries. “We hear a lot of the same things when we talk...
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
themandarin.com.au | Joshua Gliddon
What will an AI-enabled department or agency look like? Most likely it won’t resemble anything like what exists today. The workplace will change, and the tasks staffers carry out will be different, and of higher value. But getting there means thinking today about how you’ll integrate AI tools into your data and workflow, what your objectives are, and whether those tools will help you deliver on your mission to improve Australians’ lives.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
themandarin.com.au | Joshua Gliddon
It’s still too early in the year for reliable figures, but it’s anticipated that about 6% of small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) failed last year. This is up from just over 4% the previous year. That’s according to predictions reported mid-year by the Australian Financial Review, which also recommended that SMBs adopt a hyper-vigilant stance around their cash flow — cash is the lifeblood of every business — to avoid becoming failure statistics.
