PLAYING POLITICS: Victoria’s Ombudsman seeking revenge on Baillieu

Victoria’s Ombudsman has been made accountable for the first time to an inspectorate and parliamentary committee that will oversee its increasingly notorious activities.

In response, George Brouwer, soon to retire as Ombudsman, has been writing public letters attacking the government …

“Child safety” bureaucrats unleash sex predator foster child on family, then blame the kids he raped

Queensland bureaucrats paid to look after child safety unleashed a troubled teen sex predator foster child – without warning the foster parents – on a family and are now defending litigation brought by his victims on the basis it was …

FACTS NOT FADS: Taking a second look at outsourcing to China

Manufacturing everything in China is having quite serious implications for innovation. And while outsourcing to the cheapest place makes sense, it’s increasingly clear to some of the most innovative companies in the world – like the US powerhouse GE – that insourcing from a local manufacturing option they own and control can be a cheaper, vastly superior option.