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…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (231+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The Victorian government has tabled legislation to give key integrity bodies more power to pursue corruption in state building projects. Under the changes, the Royal Commission into the Integrity of…...

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…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (207+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. If Australia doesn’t push harder to build sovereign models and invest in AI skills, we risk hosting the world’s data centres while failing to gain many of the benefits. That’s…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (216+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. A special investigation into the Department of Communities and Justice’s (DCJ) handling of welfare reports found the department has been determining before some children are born that they will be…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (172+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The clean-up of Australia’s historically criticised regime of policing the obligations of company directors — like paying tax and not generating thousands of false goods and services refund claims — is itself…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (209+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. A NSW Health worker engaged in serious corrupt conduct, according to the state’s anti-corruption watchdog. NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC NSW) Operation Tivoli found that NSW Health worker Zoran…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (212+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Former NSW building commissioner David Chandler has alleged a year-long campaign to “white-ant” him out of his role in anti-corruption hearings in Sydney. The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (277+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Australia’s H5N1 outbreak is no longer just a test of disease detection. It is a test of how well our biosecurity system can connect science, wildlife management, environmental resilience, and the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (264+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. When parliament tested DFAT’s age-18 passport-letter pathway, the question was simple: could the department show that a letter reaches the young Australian it is meant to inform, and that the…...