The Australian Government's primary responsibility is to keep our nation safe from those who seek to do us harm, both internally and externally. The Government’s decision to exclude permanent members Mike Burgess the current Director-General of Security in charge of...
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Opinion: Labor’s national security kowtow a win for Beijing
Tuesday 26th Mar 2024
The Albanese government is taking a series of disturbing actions in national security, effectively implementing an agenda that the Chinese Communist Party wants for Canberra Labor is doing bad things Beijing wants it to do. These are: expelling intelligence chiefs...
Defence Connect – Coalition unloads on government over National Security Committee revelations
Wednesday 20th Mar 2024
Deputy chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Andrew Wallace has led the charge against the government following revelations that most senior intelligence officers were being excluded from the National Security Committee of Cabinet....
Commentary: Janet Albrechtsen on the Government’s confidential settlement in the Higgins Case and its comparative injustice to injured or disabled military veterans
Sunday 15th Jan 2023
Read the full article here, The following excerpts from that article are specific to her comparative injustice commentary. The process followed by the government, and in particular the Department of Finance, to settle this claim was so outrageously out of line with...
PM’s Code of Conduct for Ministers
Thursday 1st Sep 2022
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has updated the ministerial codes of conduct In the foreword for the conduct, the PM said his government is committed to ‘integrity, honesty and accountability’. “This code is underpinned by key principles that Ministers must act with...
PM’s Code of Conduct for Ministers
Saturday 30th Jul 2022
The Albanese Government is committed to integrity, honesty and accountability and Ministers in my Government (including Assistant Ministers) will observe standards of probity, governance and behaviour worthy of the Australian people. Ministers hold high public office...
The Government’s Model Litigant Policy — Ethical Issues
Tuesday 5th Jul 2022
The article by Philip Salem (Sparke Helmore Lawyers) is a reminder of the duties of government organisations to act as a model litigant and highlights some of the ethical issues facing lawyers forthose organisations. At the same time it is relevant knowledge for our...