Government News

The Victorian Government has provided over half a billion dollars to boost family violence responses.

Pat Dodson has delivered a troubling reading of efforts to improve the legal treatment of Indigenous Australians.

Coffs Harbour City Council will vote on whether to reduce its renewable energy target (RET) this week.

The Gold Coast council could spend $390,000 on a high-tech way to cut public urination.

Fourteen staff members at Victoria’s Wangaratta council have taken voluntary redundancy as the council seeks to cut costs.

Experts say they are ‘working blind’ when it comes to predicting erosion along most of Australia’s coast.

Some intriguing documents suggest TasWater has been avoiding scientific findings about lead contamination.

ACT unions say Canberra employers and insurers now have more power than the police to snoop into the private lives workers.

Perth’s newest village - White Gum Valley - will soon generate and sell its own electricity from a precinct of solar homes.

Health unions say staff cuts are putting medical students at risk.

The WA Transport Minister could be dragged into an ASIC investigation of suspicious share trading.

Sub-contractors who worked on expanding the Perth Airport say they have been left short by the problem-plagued project.

Executives have reassured Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman that the Basslink power cable will be repaired in June.

The WA Government is taking on the recommendations of a wide-ranging review into its power system.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is making a big speech on resources and LNG today.

Aged care provider Allity has reportedly sacked dozens of 30 enrolled nurses from its Morphettville and Walkerville sites in South Australia.

A watchdog for safe pay in the transport industry has been dealt a big blow, with a warning from the top that it could be scrapped.

Tasmania's submission to a federal inquiry on school funding has been criticised as inadequate by the education union.

Leaked emails have caused outrage among CSIRO workers this week.

Former Liberal leader John Hewson says the next global recession could be caused by climate change.