Category: Rail

The government’s review of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record has not only recommended that a new Commission be set up to run the scheme but that electronic records become the default.

Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett is under attack from councils over inadequate funding in the State Budget 2014-15 for ambitious local government mergers.

Rates rises and big cuts to local community services set to roll as Financial Assistance Grants frozen.

Over 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.

The New South Wales government plans to eliminate Sydney’s infamously hot and sweaty train rides through a big new investment in intercity rolling stock.

Australia’s peak railway body is cheering on the Victorian government’s big Budget allocation of $14.5 billion to key rail projects that it claims will “transform the state”.

The man tasked with finding ways to save money has nominated ballooning Commonwealth Superannuation liability as a big problem that will need to be addressed one way or the other.

The Denis Napthine government reinforced its anti-graffiti grant scheme by providing up to $25,000 to local governments working on projects to scrub away unsightly tags and bombs.

While welfare payments and tax shifts dominate National Commission of Audit’s wish list, there’s still plenty of potential pain points for the federal public sector.

The federal government’s plan to build a second airport in Sydney has prompted a key state Liberal MP to push for his own government to reclaim key transport assets previously sold to developers under Labor.