NSW councils fleeced by half billion in annual cost-shifting
A new report by Local Government NSW has laid bare rampant cost-shifting which has forced councils to pick up a $521 mil tab in the 2011/2012 financial year.
13 March, 2014
Sector
Bob Katter lashes Woolworths over Mossman’s red lights
Accusations that new traffic signals are an attempt to dominate a small community.
13 March, 2014
Queenslanders see red over Woolworths tactics in Far North
The small community of Mossman is fighting back hard against the big retailer’s attempt to redefine their town’s streetscape by dictating what kind of infrastructure gets built.
13 March, 2014
Paid parking permits for APS will have tickets locked to cars and zones
A bid to extract $73 million a year from public servants driving to work carries a raft of restrictions that prevent spot sharing and penalise car-pooling using different vehicles.
10 March, 2014
Parramatta starts hiring to lure developers from City of Sydney and wrest CBD crown
A casting call for a new head of property development in the West has cast a spotlight on the renewed battle to lay claim to the real centre of Sydney.
10 March, 2014
O’Farrell sale of Ausgrid HQ sale nets $151 mil
The NSW government has continued its liquidation of valuable CBD public sector offices to provide funding to essential services and infrastructure.
10 March, 2014
Queensland takes American advice on natural disasters
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has flown to the United States to see first hand how a collaboration between the Queensland University of Technology and the California Institute of Technology can help mitigate and better manage natural disasters.
10 March, 2014
Rail lobby urges Port of Melbourne sale to be reinvested into rail
Australia’s peak rail body has insisted that the Victorian government reinvests the planned sale of the Port of Melbourne into other vital transport infrastructure across the state to boost economic activity.
7 March, 2014
Shergold to chair aged care sector reform committee
Professor Peter Shergold will chair the new Aged Care Sector Committee, which will work with government as it implements aged care reforms.
7 March, 2014
Federal Attorney General validates private sector ID checks
Electronic efficiency flicks the switch for national verification-as-a-service.
6 March, 2014
CPSU bargaining claims target redundancy payouts and 15.4 per cent super
The public service union is digging in for drawn out battle over entitlements after the government opened bidding with the offer of a wage freeze.
6 March, 2014
Public sector ICT falling behind, AIIA tells Canberra
Government called on to lead by example to get operational savings of up to eight per cent.
6 March, 2014
Dangerous Victorian power lines to be buried to prevent bushfires
An ambitious long term project to place Victoria’s high voltage powerlines underground is digging in to prevent a repeat of the devastating ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires of 2009.
6 March, 2014
Canberra to build solar hub to boost renewable energy
The nation’s capital is planning to build a new “innovation precinct” to attract research and development into solar power with the goal of making Canberra a “leading city” in renewable energy.
6 March, 2014
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