Taylor Hawkins

Nov 6, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Melissa Coade |Stephen Bartos |Taylor Hawkins |Tom Ravlic

The federal government has issued an update nearly one year-on from its formal response to the robodebt royal commission, claiming “significant progress” to public service reform and restoration has been achieved since the details of the unlawful scheme were laid bare.  By the end of 2024, full implementation of the majority of the royal commission’s recommendations are expected to be complete. The government plans to release another update in early 2025.

Nov 6, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Dan Holmes |Stephen Bartos |Taylor Hawkins |Kim Carr |Daniel Holmes

Senator Linda Reynolds has berated Services Australia CEO David Hazlehurst for tabling a link to the Australian Government Data Catalogue in Senate estimates. Services Australia tabled the answer “available on data.gov” in response to a number of advanced questions. Reynolds said Services Australia had provided no answers to good faith questions. Hazlehurst said Services Australia was “trying to be helpful”.

Nov 3, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Taylor Hawkins |Kim Carr |Sean Innis |Cathy Fussell

Australians are culturally hardwired to aspire for a “fair go”. To collectively realise this vision, we must direct our resources and knowledge to ensure that future generations can enjoy a fairer society. Redirecting our attention from the short-term can help us address some of Australia’s most significant challenges, such as rising costs of living, income inequality, unequal healthcare access, declining education performance, and climate change.

Mar 15, 2024 | medium.com | Taylor Hawkins

Along the path of my winding career in policy and future generation leadership, I spent time working as a ‘diversity and inclusion consultant’, specialising in working with companies to help make their efforts to ‘attract, retain and advance’ staff from all backgrounds more effective. Though I’ve moved on from that specific role, the essence of it still influences everything I do. There’s this automatic mental checklist I go through in any room, during any discussion:‘Who’s missing here?

Nov 30, 2023 | portugal.postsen.com | Taylor Hawkins

- After three years with many changes of members, it was only in 1997 that the Foo Fighters found the ideal drummer for his line-up, and the late Taylor Hawkins quickly gained the trust and friendship of Dave Grohl. Still, it was only from the record One by One (2002) that the leader of the Foos gave up composing the drum tracks – the instrument that made him famous with the Nirvana – and completely handed the reins to Taylor, who had a very similar style to his.