Government News

News South Wales Premier Mike Baird has made his pitch in the much-awaited yet much-avoided GST conversation, arguing the rate should be increased to 15 per cent to pay for better healthcare.

The Queensland Parliament has passed the Palaszczuk Government's $49.9 billion "real Labor budget", but business groups want more big projects.

A new centre will be set up specifically to find ways of demonstrating teacher effectiveness.

A forum in Darwin has heard of an idea that could greatly boost education outcomes for kids in the bush.

Rowena Allen has been appointed Victoria’s first Gender and Sexuality Commissioner, and is set to champion the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse and intersex (LGBTI) Victorians within the Government.

Two NSW councils are trying out a skill-sharing arrangement, with City of Ryde Group Manager Environment and Planning Dominic Johnson taking up a three-month secondment with Willoughby Council.

The Local Government Association of Queensland is pretty happy with the Palaszczuk Government’s first Budget.

The South Australian Government has put up $2 million for 57 regional youth local government traineeships.

Tasmania’s Opposition is sounding an alarm about the conditions imposed on the state’s paramedics.

The WA Opposition wants an inquiry into growing incarceration rates, as workers are put at risk by state prisons bulging at the seams.

Public servants at Murray Darling-Basin Authority have voted to strike over their ongoing pay and conditions battle.

A furore is starting over the incredible travel entitlement spending of Federal Speaker Bronwyn Bishop.

The ninth federal public sector pay deal has been approved, leading to jubilation among Abbott Government negotiators.

Treasurer Joe Hockey cannot bring himself to question the value of negative gearing.

Lobby groups say the Federal Government’s focus on Northern Australia could reinvigorate their campaign for the Urannah Dam in North Queensland.

There is disagreement between green groups and government bodies as to whether rising water prices in the Murray River system are the result of the basin plan.

A respected hydrologist has told New South Wales farmers that they have nothing to fear from coal seam gas (CSG) operations in the Pilliga forest.

News Corp media outlets say Labor wants another carbon tax.

Researchers in the Northern Territory will assess the resilience of freshwater fish in the region’s rivers.

A sacked Queensland tow-truck driver is taking on the RACQ, after winning the support of his union and the general public.