Baird pokes the bear: Alan Jones on the warpath over council mergers
Enemies in high places.
20 April, 2016
Posts Tagged: litigation
Supreme Court forces NSW government to hand over council merger report
“Outrageous abuse of government power”: Ku-ring-gai Mayor.
19 April, 2016
NSW forced merger reports suppressed
More councils enter legal fray over mergers.
6 April, 2016
Litigation risk from climate change rising
Class actions against governments acting negligently.
14 January, 2015
Contention over muzzling government employee Tweets
By Charles Power* Social media is good for business. However when the business of an organisation is the development of government policy, the use of Twitter, Facebook and other platforms by public servants can create problems. This was certainly the experience of the Commonwealth Department of Immigration who discovered an officer using the Twitter handle’ […]
20 August, 2013
IBM banished from new QLD government work
By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland government has moved swiftly to punish multinational technology and services vendor IBM over the $1.2 billion software disaster that crippled the state’s health department payroll for months by immediately banning the company from securing any more deals. The move to ban IBM from further public sector work in Queensland represents […]
7 August, 2013
Legal headaches for NSW land values
By Julian Bajkowski and Paul Hemsley The government of New South Wales could soon be in the bizarre position of attempting to sue itself after the head of a parliamentary committee holding an inquiry into the state’s Land Valuation System suggested that Broken Hill City Council consider litigation against the state’s Valuer General. The unprecedented […]
11 February, 2013
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