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The payoff: how KPMG scored big from NSW Treasury after …
WEBTreasury’s Pratt — a former Westpac and NAB executive — and his deputy secretary San Midha — a former Westpac executive — used Watson’s modelling to attempt to undermine Lyon’s, demanding that KPMG itself resolve the purported conflict by using Watson’s.
What the robodebt chief knew: Kathryn Campbell denies making ...
WEBarticle-body. Kathryn Campbell AO CSC, former secretary of both the departments of Human Services and Social Security, which prosecuted the unlawful robodebt scheme, has denied, on oath, making misleading statements in agency annual reports that construed the illegal shakedown as a legitimate compliance activity.
Painfully bearing witness to a repeat of history in Afghanistan, and …
WEBarticle-body. International concern about the fate of Afghanistan’s women and children under the Taliban’s rule has been underscored by many prominent voices in the past few weeks.Here, The Mandarin speaks with a Sydney human rights defender with her finger on the pulse of the situation and a story of her own that the world needs to hear. Najeeba Wazefadost has a message for the global ...
Charles Perkins House, the new name for the old ‘home of …
WEBMar 26, 2019 · In a fitting tribute, the building where Indigenous affairs policy is developed was renamed Charles Perkins House last week, in honour of the celebrated anti-discrimination campaigner and former Department of Aboriginal Affairs secretary.
Is Services Australia the last great hope for federal digital ...
WEBMay 29, 2019 · Yesterday’s announcement by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to establish a new whole-of-government service delivery agency — Services Australia — is a potential game-changer, and may be the last chance to fix, once and for all, the meandering digital transformation journey of the federal government.. As a former Australian prime minister once said about plagiarising its digital agenda from ...
Alastair MacGibbon pops up as strategy chief at CyberCX, a new …
WEBOct 16, 2019 · Former federal cybersecurity chief Alastair MacGibbon has emerged as chief strategy officer of a new Australian firm, Cyber CX, which was created from a merger of 12 existing IT security firms.
Glyn Davis' direction to APS: Learn to follow community - The …
WEBarticle-body. Professor Glyn Davis’ vision of public sector reform is taking shape, with the PM&C secretary explaining that achieving better government services will require public servants to shake free of the compulsion to take the lead in coming up with solutions.
Defence leaders take responsibility for failings uncovered by ...
WEBAug 4, 2021 · The main objectives of the department’s 36-page reform plan are to address the past and prevent recurrence. To meet these objectives, the report has set out a number of actions, including addressing specific allegations of wrongdoings against individuals.
Government backs ‘hospital to home’ infant loss support program
WEBarticle-body. A $400,000 government grant will keep an intensive support program for families grieving the loss of their infant by another six months.