Revolt over $925 mil Budget raid on councils
Rates rises and big cuts to local community services set to roll as Financial Assistance Grants frozen.
16 May, 2014Rates rises and big cuts to local community services set to roll as Financial Assistance Grants frozen.
16 May, 2014Mike Baird and Tony Abbott’s push to bolster job growth and economic activity in the electoral heartland of Sydney’s Western suburbs is gathering pace as a key department is sent packing from the city centre.
15 May, 2014The City of Sydney is digging into its mammoth pile of garbage with a new clean energy technology that aims to transform stinking gasses into an upcycled energy resource pumped back into the power grid.
15 May, 2014Tony Abbott couldn’t get eHealth running as John Howard’s Health Minister. But the long march to digitise medicine will continue.
13 May, 2014Australia’s tech powerhouse becomes a victim of its own commercial success.
13 May, 2014Consolidations galore as the bureaucratic round-up begins.
13 May, 2014Third and biggest wave of agency amalgamations scheduled for MYEFO 2014-15.
13 May, 2014Following the release of the Colin Barnett government’s 2014-15 Budget, the local government sector has reacted with fury at a lack of adequate funding for the state’s metropolitan local government reform process.
13 May, 2014Over the next decade, Sydney’s growing population will see a radical transformation of the central business district following the council’s unprecedented approval of a record $1.94 billion building and construction program.
13 May, 2014Money making mint to be sold, loss-making Australia Post kept, corporate watchdog registry slips leash.
13 May, 2014Treasurer Joe Hockey has prevailed over hard-line factional rivals after the government started to massage down its APS job shedding estimates and moderate its message over the level of deep cuts needed.
12 May, 2014Councils in Queensland have welcomed the launch of a new digital tool that allows mayors and councillors to sort through mobile apps designed to improve their operations and productivity.
12 May, 2014The real quality and performance of increasingly popular photovoltaic products is being exposed to sunlight to put under-performers in the shade.
11 May, 2014Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the green light to mass redundancies in government agencies to prosecute public service spending cuts in the forthcoming Budget.
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