Tag: senate

Govt lukewarm on consultancy clean up

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government has rejected dozens of bipartisan recommendations to clean up the consulting sector with structural change and more oversight, insisting its own reforms are doing the job....

Govt’s consulting bill almost $600 million and rising

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Almost four years into the Albanese government’s consultants purge, agencies are still on the hook for almost $600 million in large active consultant contracts, new integrity disclosures show. The...

‘Science is under siege’: Senate to probe CSIRO cuts

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
More than 1,100 job cuts and plummeting funding at the CSIRO will be examined by a Senate inquiry over the summer as criticism mounts on the Albanese government’s refusal...

‘Aren’t you ashamed?’: Govt lashed on CSIRO cuts

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Science minister Tim Ayres has defended the CSIRO’s move to cut up to 350 research jobs, telling Parliament it was a “necessary and important” change to the national science...

Pocock promises innovation agenda in second stint

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Independent senator David Pocock would throw his weight behind lifting R&D investment, startup support and responsible innovation in a second term, saying politicians need to do more to back...

Senators back real-time pathology data sharing bill

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Government legislation that ensures medical imaging data is shared by default with the My Health Record system is set to float through the Senate, despite concerns of an uneven...

Australia gets world-first social media age ban

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under the age of 16, with the bill passing in the last hour of Parliament for the...

Senate demands more PsiQuantum details

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Senate is demanding Industry minister Ed Husic hand over more details about the process that led to a $1 billion public investment in PsiQuantum, including the US firm’s unsolicited...