Victoria could soon outlaw LGBTI discrimination in religious schools

Christian Schools Australia opposes the bill.

7 September, 2015

New NSW mine exposes political fault lines

Tensions are mounting over mining on farmland

9 July, 2015

Coalition of the unwilling fights NSW council forced mergers

Save Our Councils Coalition makes a noise.

15 June, 2015

Multinational tax take bleeds after huge ATO staff cuts

Audit capacity diminished amid allegations of rorts.

9 April, 2015

Illegal guns a statistical black hole

Senate inquiry into illegal gun use and supply.

13 October, 2014

Call for probe into federal care payments problems

Hard questions over why $34 million in benefits went begging

7 October, 2014

Home schooling surge put under the microscope

Unregistered students a focus

26 August, 2014

WorkCover NSW told to hurry apology over internal bullying

Badly behaved bosses warned there can always be more “public humiliation”

15 July, 2014

WA solar energy lobby claims success in swinging votes away from renewable energy skeptics

The abolition of the Carbon Tax was sold as the cure for soaring power bills, but in Western Australia the prospect of households losing the opportunity to feed into the grid and cut their power bills is burning a few fingers.

8 April, 2014

New row over Commission of Audit’s cone-of-silence

Public submissions normally collated and published online by the government have been dispensed with before the Budget.

24 February, 2014

Abbott says federal job cuts of 12,000 will be it

By Julian Bajkowski Opposition leader Tony Abbott has sought hose down rising fears that between 20,000 and 30,000 federal public service jobs will ultimately be axed in a repeat of Howard-era mass public service sackings in Canberra, taking to national radio on the ABC to pledge that only 12,000 jobs will go. Mr Abbott told […]

5 September, 2013

Fear of mass public service sackings grips Canberra campaign

By Julian Bajkowski Canberra may well be celebrating its Centenary this year, but locals are weighing the prospect of the public service designer city being partly depopulated. As the election looms, the threat of bulk federal redundancies under a Coalition government has again increased in value as prime political currency among voters there. Senator for […]

30 July, 2013

Hunters dropped in NSW National Parks gun fight

By Julian Bajkowski The New South Wales O’Farrell government has squeezed the trigger on a deeply unpopular push by the shooter’s lobby to gain much greater access to the state’s National Parks, forests and reserves by abolishing the highly controversial Game Council of NSW that had been put in charge of controlling the amateur hunting […]

4 July, 2013

Liberals support for referendum shatters

By Julian Bajkowski Bitter factional infighting has torn apart public Coalition support for a Constitutional change that would guarantee federal funds can flow directly to more than 500 local governments after key hard-right elements publicly railed against the case for a ‘yes’ vote in a torrid Senate debate. After more than a year of publicly […]

19 June, 2013