Demystifying artificial intelligence

Demystifying artificial intelligence

Can governments use AI to deliver services if they don't understand how it is working?

  • byCatherine Garner

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Is the bureaucracy a gender equality utopia?
Analysis
Analysis

Is the bureaucracy a gender equality utopia?

'Blokey'government workplaces no longer pay higher wages than agencies with mostly female staff.

  • byMarkus Mannheim
Can public servants have their cake and eat it,too?
Opinion
Canberra

Can public servants have their cake and eat it,too?

How a humble Christmas gift became a moral dilemma too difficult to swallow.

  • byMarkus Mannheim
Gagged:A brazen attack on Parliament and the public interest
Opinion
Opinion

Gagged:A brazen attack on Parliament and the public interest

The Attorney-General has diminished himself by censoring the government's most important watchdog.

  • byRichard Mulgan
Life in the people's republic of Canberra
Opinion
Opinion

Life in the people's republic of Canberra

This Labor fiefdom desperately needs an effective opposition to jolt the governing party out of complacency.

  • byJenny Stewart
Protecting against trade ends up harming many
Opinion
Opinion

Protecting against trade ends up harming many

Turning the clock back through industry protection will not restore well-paid jobs to middle-skill men.

  • byJenny Gordon
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Facts,not fantasies,should shape the public service
Opinion
Opinion

Facts,not fantasies,should shape the public service

The review of the bureaucracy is producing some useful,and some absurd,discussions.

  • byPaddy Gourley
For better or worse,the public service has a motivated minister
Analysis
Analysis

For better or worse,the public service has a motivated minister

There's no flying under the radar now for the federal bureaucracy.

  • byDoug Dingwall
Why do we have a'big Australia'?
Opinion
Opinion

Why do we have a'big Australia'?

Pruning migration is low-hanging policy fruit compared with reducing greenhouse emissions.

  • byStephen Saunders
'Loopholes'or targeted exemptions? Our misunderstood human rights law
Opinion
Opinion

'Loopholes'or targeted exemptions? Our misunderstood human rights law

Public officials should pick up the existing legislation and read it before derailing the next debate on legal reform.

  • byJohn Wilson
Little appetite for knowing our leaders'lives
Opinion
Opinion

Little appetite for knowing our leaders'lives

Wisdom falls from the biographies of American presidents,if only present leaders would read them.

  • byMark Thomas