Government News

Safety, cost, regulation and services are being weighed-up in the wake of recent air disasters. 

With the results of a review still looming, insiders say Australian renewable energy is “dead”.

Australian nuclear is being boosted this week with the re-animation of Queensland’s uranium industry, and some encouraging words from a former Prime Minister.

Research says leaks from Australian coal seam gas (CSG) wells are much less severe than leaks in the US, but they are still a major source of carbon emissions.

High-flying businesspeople and fly-in, fly-out workers are being blamed for a spike in HIV infections across Western Australia.

Research continues to show that indoor tanning is a bad idea.

Groups representing virtually all of the Australian medical community say that the health issues affecting asylum seeker children are out of hand.

A scandal is emerging around the anticoagulant drug dabigatran, marketed as Pradaxa.

A state of emergency has now been declared in Sierra Leone as the death toll from the African Ebola outbreak tops 800.

Victoria has excommunicated religion from its schools, banning church groups from holding prayer meetings, handing out sacred texts or other on-campus expanding of the flock.

Concern is coming from several directions over possible changes to Australian internet law.

A Queensland Court of Appeal judge has attacked the new Chief Justice in an email to former classmates.

The Tasmanian Opposition says it must rebuild after its decimation in the March election, if it is to go in to bat for public servants.

The West Australian Local Government Advisory Board has explained some of the delays in the re-structure of Perth councils.

The Victorian Local Government Association wants to know the result of inquiries into local government elections.

Queensland councils must diversify to generate growth, according to research and the state’s Premier.

Newcastle Council employees are continuing their industrial action against threats to jobs and services.

Researchers have peered into the future of the Northern Territory, mapping population growth to indentify the emerging issues of tomorrow.

There are concerns this week that the Royal Commission into unions is heaping more work onto public servants.

The media has been banned from reporting on a case that the fugitive Julian Assange calls “an embarrassing corruption scandal involving the Australian government”.