The (gender) X factor in our bulging bureaucracy
As Albo’s public servant army swells, there are more staff at the Bureau of Meteorology than the Federal Court, and the number of people identifying as Gender X has soared | SEE THE DIVERSITY NUMBERS
As Albo’s public servant army swells, there are more staff at the Bureau of Meteorology than the Federal Court, and the number of people identifying as Gender X has soared | SEE THE DIVERSITY NUMBERS
FULL LIST | Australia’s top 17 public service mandarins will be paid combined packages of up to $16.3m, as Anthony Albanese directs them to improve efficiencies across Labor’s ballooning bureaucracy.
Australia’s resources export earnings will plunge by $33bn despite surging demand for gold, according to government forecasts warning global shocks threaten commodity demand and prices.
Xi Jinping’s top diplomat in Australia has warned Anthony Albanese about the risks of increasing military spending, while rejecting fears over China’s massive armed forces build-up.
Sussan Ley will draw on a network of top female business chiefs and counsel from long-time backers and party elders as she attempts to rebuild the decimated Liberals | See the power circle.
In a first for new foreign investment laws and to ‘protect the national interest and the integrity of our foreign investment framework’, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has taken Indian Ocean International Shipping and Service Company to the Federal Court.
Australians are bleeding from higher taxes constructed to pay for the lack of courage displayed by big-spending territory, state and federal leaders whose budgets are drowning in debt and deficit.
While Anthony Albanese, Richard Marles and Jim Chalmers are actively considering increasing spending, they will not bow to pressure from Trump to lift Australia’s defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP.
Anthony Albanese has left the door open for a last-minute dash to The Hague next week as he continues seeking his first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump at the NATO leaders’ summit.
Jim Chalmers has talked up the need for an ‘evolution’ of the tax system and wants new ideas at the productivity roundtable but says he hasn’t changed his view on Labor’s super tax; Anthony Albanese may follow Donald Trump to next week’s NATO meeting.
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