Julian Bajkowski

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

A major academic study into the Australian Public Service’s (APS) response to the robodebt royal commission’s recommendations has found that the two biggest agencies in the Commonwealth simply ghosted their staff on the issue. In a landmark paper published by the Journal of European Public Policy, Australian National University researchers Daniel Casey and Dr Maria Maley have found that defence and home affairs didn’t offer their staff guidance on the wash-up of the scandal.

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

A major academic study into the Australian Public Service’s response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Robodebt Scheme has found the two biggest agencies in the Commonwealth simply ghosted their staff on the issue. In a landmark paper published by the Journal of European Public Policy, Australian National University researchers Daniel Casey and Dr Maria Maley have found that Defence and Home Affairs just didn’t offer their staff guidance on the wash-up of the scandal.

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

The arrival of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Seattle has coincided with another ostensibly super-sized investment into Australia by a global technology platform. This time, by Amazon Web Services, which reckons it will tip another $20 billion into onshored data centres on Australian soil. The local investment by the cloud and e-commerce behemoth will span the period of 2025 to 2029 and works out to between $4 billion and $5 billion a year.

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

When floods or fires hit towns and communities, it’s almost taken as a given that the responders and support staff on the front line don’t watch the clock when making people and property safe. But what happens when once-unusual or rare flood events just keep coming and coming, one after the other?

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

Australian public servants fretting over the reputational and political risks of buying brands associated with former DOGE chief and Trump ex-bestie Elon Musk have been offered a lifeline by a telecommunications carrier part-owned by the sovereign pension fund for Canadian civil servants.