Government of Australia
The Government of Australia is the national (federal) executive government of Australia, headquartered in Canberra. Its official website, australia.gov.au, serves as a central entry point linking citizens to Australian federal, state, and territory government payments, services, and information and now redirects to the myGov portal.www.australia.gov.au
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Sep 17, 2026
Catherine KingPANELIST
The government has achieved a lot of firsts for women's equality inside and outside of this place.
Catherine KingPANELIST
The first Commonwealth Government to achieve a majority of women on the government benches.
Milton DickMODERATOR
Hear, hear.
Catherine KingPANELIST
The first Commonwealth Government to have more women than men around our cabinet table.
Milton DickMODERATOR
Hear, hear.
Catherine KingPANELIST
The lowest gender pay gap in Australian history.
Andrew QuillenGUEST
And you're also seeing what else you may be being charged for that you have no business paying for.
Daniel LukesHOST
Your client list includes Microsoft, Blackstone, Mayo Clinic, JPMorgan Chase and Government of Australia and New Zealand.
Daniel LukesHOST
What do these very different institutions have in common when it comes of getting AI strategy right?
Andrew QuillenGUEST
I think they ask the right questions.
Nathan PowellHOST
Now, we're talking algorithms this week or more specifically, whether Australians should be able to switch them off.
Eliza LewisPANELIST
The Australian government has released draft legislation for its new digital duty of care, and one of the headline measures is something called My Feed, My Way.
Eliza LewisPANELIST
As part of the new legislation, social media platforms would have to give Australians over 16 a choice about what appears in their default feed.
Eliza LewisPANELIST
Platforms would have to ask you whether you want personalized recommendations in your default feed.
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Nathan PowellHOST
And even then, I think 5% is an adventurous target.
Nathan PowellHOST
If half the country does it, that's a fundamental change to create a distribution.
Nathan PowellHOST
And then if the Australian government gets to be what they love to be, the canary in the coal mine, that then other countries get to look over the fence and see, did this work and did it not?
Ben GunnHOST
Yeah, and look, I think it also changes creator strategy because suddenly creators have two audiences they've got to make content for, people who are already following them and people who might discover them through recommendations.
JaneUNKNOWN
Again, an event like this isn't possible without our amazing partners, Whip Music, Club 77 and Monkey Shoulder.
JaneUNKNOWN
And I also want to mention that EMC's initiatives and programs are supported by the Australian Government through Music Australia.
JaneUNKNOWN
So thank you very much for their ongoing support.
JaneUNKNOWN
Thanks for listening, everyone, and I hope you enjoyed this amazing cultural dialogue.
Emily RoyGUEST
So I think the system keeps people in poverty despite some of the very good efforts by providers.
Natasha MitchellHOST
If you're out of a job, the Australian Government, under the banner of Workforce Australia, spends billions annually to contract private employment services to help you find work.
Natasha MitchellHOST
But who's the system really working for? And why do we continue to stigmatise unemployment and poverty in this country in the way that we do? A recent eye-opening investigation by the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research concluded in its report, Who's Rorting Who? The Failure of Outsourced Job Services, that the system is, quote, filling the pockets of private equity and millionaires while leaving job seekers without work.
Natasha MitchellHOST
In 2023, a parliamentary committee recommended a major overhaul of the system and the federal government has just proposed a new set of reforms.
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Emily RoyGUEST
that's right.
Emily RoyGUEST
90% have been out of work for more than 12 months, which is long-term unemployed.
Natasha MitchellHOST
And so how did the KPIs and the metrics that you're required to meet as part of your contract to the Australian government, how do they respond to that? Are you supported to support those people and meet your KPIs and compete for short-term contracts with the government?
Emily RoyGUEST
Providers are paid to place people who aren't in work into work and help them stay there.
Amit SinghGUEST
How can you bring commercial understanding having worked in industry? Or how can you bring a public policy background? So we have people that have worked for not just Prime Minister Zia in Australia, but in the United Kingdom, people that have worked for presidents in the United States, and just kind of bring all those disciplines together to provide a type of advice that looks at growth in businesses from an external perspective or from the kind of what i would kind of describe as the outsider view of what people expect companies to do um and what they expect the industries to be able to produce
Vidit AgarwalHOST
i'm conscious of times i want to come to australia india relations which you and i are involved in i mean this episode is part of the australian government's feature to shine a spotlight on indian australians one of the conversations you and i have privately and you and i were there the prime minister's events that happened three four weeks ago thing now is there's a lot of enthusiasm
Amit SinghGUEST
A lot of enthusiasm.
Amit SinghGUEST
Some would call it
Peter LettsNARRATOR
Thanks for listening.
Peter LettsNARRATOR
Regional training hubs are supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training Program.
Peter LettsNARRATOR
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Sarah MartinPANELIST
I think the idea that...
Sarah MartinPANELIST
The idea that the eSafety Commissioner, the Minister, the Parliament, the entire Government of Australia has much power at all against big tech at the moment, I think is laughable.
Sarah MartinPANELIST
And so, you know, the libs who are like, oh, we don't want to give the eSafety Commissioner too much power, it's like, have we not seen what these companies are doing and how much power they have
David SpeersHOST
in our society? Yeah, so, Jacob, zooming out of the detail of this particular bill...
Richard SaundersHOST
Now it's time once again to go back to those archives, no matter where they are.
Richard SaundersHOST
We scour the world, but mostly at Trove, at trove.nla.gov.au. Of course, the online resource from the Australian Government and the National Library of Australia.
Richard SaundersHOST
Well, I never know what I'll find when I go there, but this week we are continuing our Bent Spoon series, looking at the early years of this century.
Richard SaundersHOST
Well, let's go to the year 2001 and writing on the Skeptics web page, the late Barry Williams, who we were hearing about before with all the new videos online.
Tim WattsGUEST
The way that the technologists would say it, the normies are paying attention now, and it's pretty red hot in the community.
Tim WattsGUEST
Now, for those who haven't been paying attention, the Australian government's actually been doing a lot in this space over the last 12 months, and it's been progressively ramping up.
Tim WattsGUEST
So at the end of 2025, which kind of feels like forever ago in this country, we released the National AI Plan.
Tim WattsGUEST
And in that, we launched the Australian AI Safety Institute with about $30 million of funding.
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