Julian Bajkowski

Sydney

Senior Journalist at The Mandarin

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Articles

Inquiry into NSW Riot Squad school exam supervision

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

The Minns government has called in the former top bureaucrat of the federal Department of Education and Training to attempt to placate seething migrant communities over the debacle that resulted in riot squad police being deployed to routine government-school advanced placement exams in Sydney.
Defence bites the bullet on cyber pay, ranking, and recognition

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

The traditionally regimented Australian Defence Force has overtaken the Australian Public Service in the race to attract and retain top-tier cyber and tech talent, following the Defence Force Remuneration Tribunal’s approval of a specialist Cyber Warfare employment category with dedicated military pay rates across all services. The move to elevate and standardise cyberwarfare qualifications, ranks, and pay was initiated by the ADF and was unopposed by the Commonwealth.
Tax parades custodial sentences for Operation Protego perpetrators

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

The Australian Taxation Office may yet miss out on getting a jail sentence for former debt collector turned Four Corners whistleblower Richard Boyle courtesy of a guilty plea, but the revenue agency still managed to parade a clutch of custodial sentences for GST fraudsters busted under Operation Protego.
Fair Work finds private employers approve 77% of WFH requests

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

Histrionics from employer groups and property lobbyists about epidemic levels of public servants working from home have copped another bucket of cold water. It turns out three-quarters of private sector employers reckon that they don’t knock back WFH requests, according to a major survey commissioned by the Fair Work Commission and undertaken by Swinburne University of Technology.
ATO's IT shop cops another mechanical audit beating

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

The Australian National Audit Office has sharply criticised the Australian Taxation Office for its sloppy management of conflict of interest safeguards.
Healthscope collapses amid NSW government hospital repossession

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

The company at the centre of the New South Wales government’s high-stakes move to return control of scandal-ravaged Northern Beaches Hospital to the public sector has officially hit the wall. Healthscope was put into the hands of receivers and administrators on Monday afternoon, just weeks after state Treasurer Daniel Mookhey vowed investors must not be allowed to make a windfall on any buyback.
ATO sacking of Alex Adams approved by APSC, documents reveal

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

The otherwise quiet sacking of the head of cybersecurity for the Australian Taxation Office, which has been laid unusually bare following the ATO’s failed bid to escalate the matter to the Federal Court, has revealed that the Australian Public Service Commission signed off on the booting.
Defence sniffs audit trail, unleashes funding for lethal local industries

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

When it comes to the release of grants and industry funding, the feel-good effect is often in the timing. So it was on Friday, when Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy revealed the initial rounds of a $169.1 million Defence Industry Development Grants program had been meted out to meritorious Australian businesses.
Summit of Mount Pleasant welcomes new gunners

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

For the average Canberra trail runner, bushwalker, or navigationally confounded camera tourist, the summit of Mount Pleasant is one of the best views of the entire nation. It is known for idyllic sunset shots with Parliament House in the background, and almost nothing else. That could be about to change.
Minns moves to clean out digital house in NSW MOG

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

The New South Wales Premier’s Department has revealed plans to restructure its Digital and Information branch amid a machinery of government shake-up that will create 14 “realigned roles to appropriate teams for better service delivery, supervision and collaboration”. And potential redundancies.