Government News

The Federal Government has ditched a plan to pay $4 million for a climate change research centre headed by Bjorn Lomborg.

Hundreds of jobs will be lost at Perth's major hospitals in an attempt to contain rising costs in the government health system.

A $100 million push for new anti-terrorism facilities has been launched at a summit of police unions in Adelaide.

The Federal Government is trialling a new “Constituency Question Time”, which will open up the floor to more questions from both Government and Opposition MPs.

The New South Wales Government says forced council amalgamations are well and truly on the table, after its recent report found most are not ‘fit for the future’.

The Federal Government is introducing a reduced set of Family Tax Benefit cuts to those proposed in the 2014 budget.

An industry lobby says selling-off SA Water would raise up to $13 billion for the struggling South Australian economy.

A new study shows a majority of Canberrans support the territory’s proposed Light Rail project, but only just.

A Victorian Health Department inquiry into 11 stillbirths or deaths in 2013 and 2014 at the Bacchus Marsh and Melton Hospital says a backward system and sub-par practices contributed to infant mortality.

A $400 million deal has been signed for Western Australia’s first garbage-burning power station.

A new company will soon launch outlets offering a ‘hangover cure’ administered through an intravenous (IV) drip.

The $16 billion Adani Carmichael coal mine has been approved under a new set of environmental conditions.

The Federal Government has been accused of storming ahead on plans to impose strict restrictions on Indigenous welfare recipients, by way of a cashless welfare card.

The silence has been broken between the two sides of the federal public sector wage deal.

A row is forming over the West Australian Government-owned electricity company Synergy’s $100,000 bill for ‘corporate hospitality’ at sporting events.

The Tasmanian Government has been forced to launch a full-scale inquiry into unresolvable conflicts within the Glenorchy City Council.

The Member for Cairns, Rob Pyne, is taking action on claims of wrongdoing at a number of far north Queensland councils, particularly Tablelands Regional Council.

High levels of toxic metals, found in and near mining towns, appear to be negatively influencing the brain development of children living nearby.

The Tasmanian Government says it will implement all seven recommendations from a State Service Management Office examination of redundancy payments.

Queensland’s LNP Opposition says the State Government has given extraordinary powers to a union that was key to its election victory.