QLD councils slam sleazy election tactics

Mudslinging mars local government poll.

3 March, 2016

Queensland budget focuses on employment

Curtis Pitt’s first budget is all about jobs

16 July, 2015

QLD councils warn of 1500 job losses from dumped award

Unions not budging.

7 May, 2015

$120m row flares over QLD’s Royalties for Regions

Councils dig-in over state government raid on infrastructure revenue.

1 September, 2014

More than 50,000 public sector jobs lost in four years

By Julian Bajkowski More than 50,000 state government public service jobs have been eliminated in the last four years as consecutive waves of downsizing continue to take their toll on already stretched departments which are being forced to do far more work with substantially fewer staff. That’s the tough picture being painted for public sector […]

26 November, 2013

Springborg dials-up a second opinion on hospital award dispute

By Paul Hemsley A controversial plan to try and move Queensland’s entire public hospital senior medical staff onto individual workplace contracts by 1st July 2014 is continuing to generate indigestion after the state’s Health Minister Lawrence Springborg claimed the new deal had “a tick of approval” from Visiting Medical Officers. As new the draft contract […]

21 November, 2013

Attacks get local in QLD over Beattie’s Canberra push

By Julian Bajkowski The saying goes that all politics is local and Queensland Minister for Local Government Community Recovery and Resilience, David Crisafulli is clearly a believer. The man put in charge of deconstructing the former Labor government's deeply unpopular policy of welding local governments together has wasted no time in reminding his state’s councils […]

8 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