Josh Taylor
Journalist @joshgnosis
Josh is Crikey’s general reporter covering politics, immigration, technology, the environment and, well, just about everything. Josh joined Crikey in 2015 after being lured away from his role as an award-winning technology journalist for ZDNet.
Not everyone is happy with the new Paris agreement.
The Tasmanian senator visited Townsville just ahead of the Queensland election and charged her trip to the taxpayer.
Should the Australian Federal Police hand over information about Australians who commit crimes overseas to countries with the death penalty?
Should Malcolm Turnbull start citing Bitcoin as well as the cochlear implant when talking about Australian innovation?
The government already has an agile, innovative and confusingly capitalised department. Completely with outrageously expensive beanbag chairs.
Australia also spent more than $137,000 reinforcing that Turnbull's refugee policies are just as hardline as Abbott's.
CSIRO is happy to have its funding restored to pre-Abbott levels, but a lot of institutional knowledge has been lost.
ADF's sacking of Bernard Gaynor has been overturned, with his homophobic and transphobic comments deemed political communication.
The Department of Immigration has ceased a program that allowed nuns to take children out of immigration detention on day trips to the park or zoo. But the sisters say that's nun-sense.
Warrant, schmarrant: agencies have accessed hundreds of thousands of pieces of data in the past year, even before the mandatory data retention scheme was put into place.
