The Weekly Pint

Kate Jenkins to review Parliament’s workplace culture.

The Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins will be reviewing the workplace culture within Parliament House. If only they had considered the 55 recommendations in the Respect@Work report provided by Kate in 2020.

The road to manufacturing is paved with critical minerals

As part of the Modern Manufacturing Strategy a Resources Technology and Critical Mineral Processing National Manufacturing Priority Road Map has been released. Or as I like to call it the RTCMPNMPRM

Do you know what you are looking up online?!

The Online Safety Bill is currently being scrutinised in parliament. The bill would give greater power to have content removed from the internet. But when the bill gets introduced just 10 days after receiving 400 submissions for the consultation there are concerns it is a rush job

When it comes to think tanks, follow the money

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has been caught out playing dirty pool. It turns out their report criticising a government department for giving too much business to provider of cloud computing was funded by the companies opposition.

Evidence-based policy just got a little easier

The CSIRO has announced that more of its research will be made open access after signing transformative ‘read and publish’ agreements with American Institute of Physics, Company of Biologists, Elsevier, Microbiology Society, Royal Society, and Royal Society of Chemistry.

Co-design in Indigenous Policy

With the Closing the Gap report on its way the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic and Policy Research has released a discussion paper on the risks and opportunities of codesign in Indigenous policy