21+ hour, 38+ min ago   (225+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. If the pandemic tolled the death knell for contemporary neoliberalism — the early 21st century version, which was not too different to crony capitalism, in which workers and consumers had to play…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (146+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Finance has agreed with KPMG Australia to extend its ban on bidding for government work until October 31. An initial ban on bidding for government work was due to end on…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (164+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Australia’s chief revenue officer, Commissioner of Taxation Rob Heferen, has put politicians and markets on notice that the level of taxation debt in Australia, last pegged at $115 billion, is expected…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (181+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The Parliamentary Workplace Support Service has told the Senate it believes finding the exact number of confidentiality notices issued by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission is an “unreasonable diversion of…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (205+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. An Australia Post internal document titled ‘Post Office Network & Licensed Post Office Reimagined‘ and leaked to the committee in early June outlined a network-consolidation trial, including provisions to buy back…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (236+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Western Australia has proposed doubling the threshold for open tenders in a statutory review of the state’s procurement system. The Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF) propose to increase the…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (226+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The Western Australian government has settled a framework for the next round of public sector enterprise agreements. Under the updated wages policy, the government will negotiate 49 agreements with its roughly…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (180+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The US and Iran’s cat-and-mouse game with maritime mines in the Strait of Hormuz has cast a spotlight on Australia’s underinvestment in equipment to protect key shipping lanes and ports…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (186+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told a parliamentary committee it is considering a fourth line of investigation into KPMG Australia after the firm admitted that practitioners breached audit…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (205+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is a lineage of the influenza A virus characterised by high mortality rates in avian species. Historically, the primary reservoir for influenza A viruses has been…...