Qld Police Service

Queensland public safety agencies joined Motorola Solutions for a hackathon exploring consumer tech that might be “mission critical” too. Ensuring reliability in the public safety environment can be complicated, writes Steve Crutchfield.

Is it in the public interest to make allegations of corruption public? Sometimes, at least. Queensland’s corruption watchdog is holding a two-day forum this week to nut it out.

Sewerage upgrade nets Australia its first world Project Manager of the Year gong in Panama City, while state government agencies dominate Australia’s professional recognition of project management.

Katarina Carroll led the largest peacetime security operation in Australia’s history, a success she attributes to “relationships, relationships, relationships”. Now she’s in charge of overhauling the troubled Queensland Fire and Emergency Services. She spoke to The Mandarin.

The Productivity Commission is looking at the best way to satisfy national public safety mobile broadband needs. But there’s a new technology that looks likely to get a guernsey because it sidesteps the debate around increasingly valued chunks of radio spectrum.