Perth’s Magistrates Court has ruled on false election claims, offering a clear reminder about the weight of candidate ...

Western Australia’s next electoral commissioner, Dennis O’Reilly, will begin in his new permanent role from late January. O’Reilly has been acting in the role since May. He replaces outgoing electoral ...

Cath Patterson has joined the Department of Defence from Finance as an associate secretary with a mission to integrate different parts of the organisation — specifically boosting the areas of ...

Nearly 30 US ambassadors recalled, with the Pacific caught in the churn. A quiet but telling reset in Trump’s America First ...

If 2025 felt like whiplash, you’re not imagining it. The scandals, resets, and surprises that kept the public service on edge ...

The NSW Legislative Assembly Committee on Law and Safety will be asked to recommend what slogans and phrases should be captured by new hate speech laws following a terrorist attack in Bondi targeting ...

The Bondi attack exposed how fast the Philippines is pulled into terror narratives, even when the facts do not fit.

Cheques are finally on the way out. MYEFO backs digitisation, but the shift will test agencies used to paper fixes.

Anti-poverty and human rights groups are calling on the government to abolish the Targeted Compliance Framework, following a scathing report from the Commonwealth ombud yesterday. The ombud’s second ...

Helen Silver’s independent review into the Victorian Public Service was handed to the state government in June. Six months later, Jacinta Allan’s government has revealed what measures it will adopt to ...