The OAIC's 2023-24 annual report has a great little compare/contrast of the eSafety and an agency that saw an even bigger increase in FOI requests.

meanwhile, over at the Productivity Commission...

less embarrassing in either case than DEWR's management of the contract

I've been training me entire life for this moment

oh now I see where the brilliant idea to do another APS agency podcast in 2025 came from

If it’s a narrative dice system I am going to scream.

Also, why do this in two parts once in late May the other in late June. What could have possibly happened in a month post-election that caused a decision to nuke the Social Services portfolio twice.

Hmm, wonder why it was that NDIA SES were individually tracking stories of rorters for Shorten.

It's difficult to describe how few people in the APS can do anything in four minutes, let alone arrange an email response to a CEO from a DCEO about a controversial issue in four minutes.

SES believe that their only duty is to keep the Minister happy.

That's why the NDIA CEO can send this email and FOUR minutes later get an answer as to who the target is and how much NDIA funding they have -- because the Deputy SES was already tracking them down.

A fantastic, shocking article that demonstrates once again the forces, conditions and people that did Robodebt are still working as if nothing changed.

SES scrambling to punish a recipient who turns up in a media cycle to please a Minister who is being tough on rorts? ALP or LNP, same behaviour

Look at my assistant treasurer, dawg

Obviously the SESB1 shouldn't have done that, and it's good she's no longer in the APS, but why it the NACC wasting its time on the SES equivalent of claiming a dodgy tax deduction or jaywalking.

"Operation Kingscliffe", she approved a s26 for her brother-in-law to be and gave an interview question to her sister.

Why not Operation Kingpin.

The NACC choosing to spend its time chasing down this kind of nonsense and then refusing to even do anything about it seems counter productive - it let's everyone pretend this is the worst it gets

And no word on whether they'll make a criminal referral despite there being no other consequences as the corrupt SES already resigned

Have to love the NACC making a big fuss about a garden variety nepotism case, refusing to name the people but providing so much info that it is beyond trivial to find their names with 5 seconds on thr wayback machine

The reality of these exercises is a combination of:
1. Creating more red tape by introducing new processes for people to prove they're not adding more red tape, such as the dreaded RIS
2. Removing very narrow regulations hated by stakeholders so they can increase their profits

Hopefully PM&C still has the original files of this report and can just change the dates.

Sign up to be a Red Tape Rebel today, and be laughed at by all of your peers.

I wonder if they'll re-establish quitredtape.finance.gov.au

Good ideas strangled by red tape: Treasurer to crack down on bureaucracy Jim Chalmers says boosting productivity is central to his economic agenda. In an exclusive interview, he maps out how he hopes to do it.

A Government so out of ideas it is rebooting B plots from the Abbott years

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How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

I was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests.

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Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

the reason why the media doesn't talk about this is because it's not a narrative that suits anyone

that is, Robodebt was in no way an aberration but rather was a fairly typical example of how the Australian Government operates vis a vis welfare recipients

Rick writes for the general public so it's understandable he didn't include this, but trust me you have to work VERY hard to get the ANAO to find you were outright "ineffective" as opposed to "partially effective".

US Liberals love to simultaneously argue that Trump is a unique menace that must be stopped at all costs, but also that the Democrats shouldn't be criticised for choosing to run very weak candidates against Trump.

If he's that bad, why are you sending a senile octogenarian to fight him?

easy $300m per annum saving there

and they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling global pandemic

the great thing about V5 is that is not only manages to be terrible in very obvious ways, but also manages to be terrible in subtle ways that won't become apparent until you're deep into a campaign