Coalition at the wheel of a ship going nowhere
June 10, 2019
When Josh Frydenberg sat down with his G20 counterparts in Fukuoka, Japan, last weekend, they would have been briefed on the weakened state of our economy.
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It's not just juggling the numbers, Finance in government should be about communities
January 18, 2019
The Logan Entertainment Centre is 1177 kilometres away from the Department of Finance building in Canberra. Late last year, it played host to ChangeFest, an important event that encourages and inspires place-based social change in communities like mine that experience entrenched pockets of disadvantage.
Read MorePrivate-public sector co-operation can tackle major challenges
January 08, 2019
A decade ago, a solar and battery system that relies on machine learning to make intelligent decisions to optimise energy use in people’s homes might have seemed like something straight out of science fiction.
Read MoreIn budgets as in life generally, a tail is a tail is a tail
December 14, 2018
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
Read MoreEnd to APS staff cap will stop Government waste on contractors
August 09, 2018
The shimmering heat haze and red dirt roads of Alice Springs seem like a world away from the morning fog and paved parallel streets of Canberra.
Read MoreBudget zombies stalk the Coalition
April 22, 2018
The federal budget is the nation's fiscal and economic blueprint - a document that lays out the agenda of the government of the day and outlines the policy priorities for the year ahead.
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