Julian Bajkowski

Sydney

Senior Journalist at The Mandarin

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Articles

NSW prison educators under review

1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

The Minns government has doubled down on its commitment to remove for-profit operators from the state’s periodically challenged prison system.
Transport for NSW in fresh talks with union about action over WFH

1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) will progress negotiations over the Minns government’s controversial return-to-office edict with the state’s Public Sector Association (PSA) after federal opposition leader Peter Dutton was embarrassingly forced into an election policy backflip and repeated apologies over a similar push.
Transport for NSW loses digital lead

1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

Transport for New South Wales (TFNSW) has lost its almost decade-long digital whisperer and key Opal card wrangler in the midst of a major procurement cycle after its former chief technology and innovation officer, Kurt Brissett, traded up to become the chief digital and information officer at infrastructure behemoth Built.
Comcare casts for yet another chief

1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

The Commonwealth’s statutory workplace health and safety regulator and injury compensational agency is officially on the hunt for a new chief after an official casting call was issued on Friday for a new chief executive officer following the departure of Greg Vines to Saudi Arabia.
Sub-hunting exercises follow in wake of China's naval visit

1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

The Department of Defence and the Royal Australian Navy have put on an overtly public display of Australia’s anti-submarine warfare capabilities. Described officially as “the largest Australian task group exercise in more than a decade”, it is occurring off the West Australian coast just weeks after a group of Chinese military vessels completed a conspicuous circumnavigation that included live-fire exercises.
Jihad Dib presses on with NSW digital ID, state wallet reforms

1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

New South Wales has pressed on with its state-based build digital identity credentials, launching a new pilot project that will link a test group of existing digital photo card holders to an identity transaction facility that the Minns government says will only supply the necessary verified information via a so-called “digital handshake”.
It’s different: Albo blanks Minns’ flexible work crackdown

2 weeks ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

A newly gentrified inner-city market, a sidelined federal cabinet minister, and a policy that forced the federal opposition into a potentially catastrophic about-turn and apology for misreading the electorate. That was the backdrop to the first appearance by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New South Wales Premier Chris Minns together on the campaign trail on Wednesday, when the unavoidable question of why Peter Dutton’s humiliatingly junked return-to-office order was bad policy.
Striking NSW public doctors targeted by hospital security

2 weeks ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

Striking public health and hospital doctors have accused New South Wales Health and the Minns government of using intimidation, harassment, and union-busting tactics after the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation (ASMOF) alleged that security personnel targeted staff wearing or displaying campaign material at Westmead Hospital.
Minns left exposed after women force Dutton's WFH backdown

2 weeks ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

When it comes to buyer’s remorse, it’s not hard to detect the shudders that must be going through New South Wales Premier Chris Minns’ tactics team after federal opposition leader Peter Dutton spent the last 48 hours apologising to women and carers alienated by his return-to-office mandate. In electoral terms, Dutton is now significantly wounded, and by his own hand.
Casting call for Australian Naval Nuclear-Power Safety Regulator

2 weeks ago | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski

Politicians may be all at sea over Australia’s nuclear energy future. But, the Department of Defence has put out the official AUKUS casting call to land a new chief safety officer to ensure the atomic boats the nation is spending big on remain shipshape and free of radioactive leaks.