Government News

A key employers’ lobby group has accused various unions of receiving big payoffs by selling expensive yet inferior income protection insurance.

Russia has waived about $10 billion of North Korean debt in exchange for a gas pipeline through the secretive country to South Korea.

Federal Attorney-General George Brandis says ignoring people who deny climate science is “medieval”.

Clean energy companies say the threat of changes to the renewable target scheme is spooking investors.

Australian public broadcaster the ABC has been given permission to broadcast its Australia Network content to the entire Chinese population.

Police have implicated some Queensland Government employees in a black market drug syndicate spanning the east coast.

One of Australia’s chief public servants says departments should be able to make and enforce their own social media policies, insisting that the service is not being gagged.

Ratepayers might be asked to pay a little bit extra to cover certain projects, as one city seeks to find out how much locals would give.

The City of Perth is looking at bringing back laws to make begging a crime, as numbers on the street increase.

Volunteer fire-fighters should be compensated when extended bushfire efforts keep them from their families and work, a Local Government Association says.

A recent poll has shown waning support for the federal Coalition government in regional areas.

State, federal and local government authorities have toured cyclone-hit regions of north Queensland in the wake of the weekend deluge, with funding packages announced and rolling-out for thousands of residents.

The Federal Government appears to be preparing to relax the rules for foreign investment from China, but one Nationals MP says changes must come from a “mature discussion”.

Three Australian academics have condemned the $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution scheme as a stuff-up destined to become “an international case study of government failure”.

Public sector insiders say a push is on to save billions by squeezing all government functions into “super departments”.

The hand-picked team tasked with assessing the federal government’s Direct Action climate change plan says it will not work.

The Federal Government has given a glimpse of its “one-stop-shop” for environmental approvals in the Northern Territory.

The Federal Environment minister has given his support for coal as an energy source, saying it will provide power for “decades and decades” to come.

Victorian police have a new tool for catching unsafe and unfocused drivers – a camera with a very long lens.

Victoria’s travel plans are up for debate, as parties spruik their transport visions ahead of this year’s election.