NSW reconsiders EV road user charge after High Court decision
The High Court has ruled that Victoria can’t charge EV drivers for using the road.
23 October, 2023The High Court has ruled that Victoria can’t charge EV drivers for using the road.
23 October, 2023A new public database brings together documents from every royal commission and public inquiry held in Australia since the mid-19th century.
27 August, 2023Western Australia’s Auditor General would have greater access to sensitive government information, under new legislation introduced to parliament.
23 October, 2022WA’s Auditor General found that six entities had deficiencies with respect to anti-money laundering obligations.
20 October, 2022IBAC, VAGO and the Victorian Ombudsman want their funding determined by a new independent commission, not the government of the day.
20 October, 2022An audit of Victoria Police suggests that officers aren’t activating their body worn cameras as often as they should.
20 June, 2022The biggest reforms to local government in Victoria in 30 years are now law.
19 March, 2020A council parking officer has spoken out about a brutal attack while he was working.
2 September, 2019Legislation has been introduced to establish a powerful Ageing and Disability Commissioner in NSW.
10 May, 2019Queensland’s councils have put forward tighter transparency regulations beyond those proposed by the state’s corruption commission.
1 May, 2018The NSW Government will provide an exemption to lockout requirements at venues in the Oxford St area for the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade on the weekend of 3-4 March. Minister for Racing Paul Toole said the one-off exemption means patrons will be able to be admitted to venues in the area […]
26 February, 2018A law has been introduced in the Queensland Parliament which retrospectively validates council rates that may have been improperly issued. The new Local Government Legislation (Validation of Rates and Charges) Amendment Bill 2018 has been formulated as a response to a Queensland Supreme Court ruling in November 2017. That ruling, known as the Linville case, […]
22 February, 2018Australia rates comparatively well on international corruption scales, but it is getting worse. The annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) from Transparency International rates 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people. It uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and […]
22 February, 2018Timothy Pilgrim, retired public servant The world is very different now, but many of us don’t know it. From 22 February 2018 Australia has a new Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) regimen. Under the laws, passed in 2017 as the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act, companies and government agencies have to tell people if lost […]
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