Government News

As many residents combine holidays with cheap medical treatments, a growing trend is seeing more international tourists booking treatments while visiting Australia.

Money-saving measures have hit hard in Western Australian Indigenous education, with more than 100 full-time Aboriginal and Islander Education Officers (AIEO) asking what the state government intends to do without them.

Western Australia has eleven thousand new state school students this year, but they will be taught by the same amount of teachers as before.

The federal government is considering removing the requirement for larger companies to lodge an annual report with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

The Tax Institute of Australia says there are a range of benefits that would come from making child care tax deductible.

Leaders of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission are feeling strapped for cash, admitting that ‘natural attrition’ has not thinned its numbers, and it needs more money for redundancies.

A Rural and Regional Committee has called for forced public service teleworking quotas, to push government jobs into regional areas.

One state’s Education Department is recouping its losses from failed schools, selling the buildings and the land on which they sat.

One mayor says a plan to have a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) police force is a “kick in the guts” to rural employment.

Some young graduates with eyes on career in spying or policing will be looking for a new life’s ambition, after budget cuts meant their cadetships were cut short.

Just over half a million dollars will go out to local councils and multicultural groups in Queensland, to promote opportunities across cultures, focussing on newly-arrived immigrants and humanitarian entrants.

Regional Development Australia (RDA) says it will help break the ice between businesses, to build productivity through communication and collaboration.

An assistance package offered by a mining company to a small town in NT may be expanded with extra Federal Government help.

Seventy million dollars will be spent in an effort to convert 25 per cent of public schools to the Independent Public School model, with Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne now announcing a special ambassador to help make it happen.

Despite the city of Adelaide being placed in the driest state on the driest inhabited continent, underneath its streets flow substantial quantities of water.

A Federal Government Minister is pushing for billions of dollars to help workers toiling in some of the worst conditions for decades, and it looks like the Prime Minister is keen to help too.

The public sector union says no good will come from the Federal Government decision to scrap the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has, after “rigorous assessment”, approved the disposal of dredge spoil within the Marine Park, making only minor requests in the granting of the dredge permit.

The Liberal and Labor parties in South Australia have a heavy transport focus in their bids for the upcoming state election, but each has taken a slightly different route.

The federal government has put up $8.9 million to upgrade 39 remote airstrips across Australia.