Government News

The Local Government Association of South Australia has slammed the state’s opposition for what it says is a broken promise.

Debate has been sparked over a process unique to NSW councils; the rate-peg.

Western Australia’s corruption commission has sweetened the deal in its quest to find a new leader.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has urged the West Australian government to actually consult Aboriginal people in remote communities, before booting them off their land.

Tasmania has seen its biggest public sector protests in decades, but the union responsible says action will now take a more subtle form.

The head of The Australia Institute says perceived anti-LNP moves on state and federal levels show the party’s approach is not working.

Staff at the Federal Department of Veterans' Affairs will take industrial action after voting in favour this week.

A community services and welfare group has called on the Federal Government to stop torturing refugees and asylum seekers.

There is a lot of concern around the Federal Government’s new jobs program for remote welfare recipients.

Murrumbidgee Irrigation (MI) has finished one of its biggest water infrastructure projects yet.

Pauline Hanson has re-launched her political party One Nation, and it appears that her number one priority this time is water.

The South Australian Government has again pledged not to sell SA Water.

The heads of the Commonwealth Bioregional Advisory Panels want as people as possible to get involved in the conversation about Commonwealth Marine Reserves.

Australia’s first body farm may be one of the least appealing locations for many, but researchers say it will be a dream to have so many corpses in one backyard.

Beach clean-ups, rehabilitating waterways, new waste management initiatives - three far north Queensland councils have done all this and more over the last five years to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

An Australian campaign group has launched a ‘No Gender December’ pledge, asking parents to boycott toys that enforce gender stereotypes.

Treasurer Joe Hockey has strongly linked the end of subsidies to Australian car manufacturing with the securing of trade agreements with Asian nations.

A mesothelioma victim is bringing a landmark legal case against the Commonwealth.

Conflict of interest claims around one state Transport Minister could become politically sticky, an analyst says.

Suggestions for ways to reduce the tragic rate of suicide among fly-in-fly-out workers have been included in a report following a West Australian Parliamentary.