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Paul Malone

Paul Malone is a former political reporter and columnist for The Sunday Canberra Times.

Departing Digital Transformation Office chief Paul Shetler has slammed the public service's lack of internal skills.

APS lacks the right staff

The government spends more than $16 billion a year on IT and there are real questions about whether we get value for money.

Former prime ministers Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and Julia Gillard.

Keating not the architect of reform

A close examination shows that Keating was not primarily responsible for any of the major reforms that contributed to Australia's lauded economic growth.

There were protests around the world before the signing of the TPP, including in Auckland, New Zealand.

TPP is far from certain

It would seem that the TPP is dead regardless of who the next president of the United States is.

An aerial view of the destruction in Aleppo.

No clean-cut way to end Aleppo battle

We can start to believe that John Kerry is seriously concerned about prosecuting war criminals when he moves to have former US President George W Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard taken into custody.