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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”.

Survey of 5,800 government staff reveals blowouts in client waiting times, mistakes and chronic understaffing is hitting frontline services.

The declining number of people participating in local sporting clubs is a pressing matter that industry bodies will wrestle at the Power of Sport and National Synthetic Surfaces Conference and Expo in Sydney on 3rd to 4th June 2014.

The local government sector in Victoria will be gearing up for a bout against the Labor Opposition after its controversial election proposal to cap rates and force councils to justify any further increases.

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.

Tough, roll-your-own brands like White Ox once used to enable smokers to display their social status inside and outside the law. Now one of the key rituals used to help punctuate the time spent behind bars is being butted out – at least in Queensland.

Calls for innovative bids to keep planes flying to outback towns.

Cycling advocates warn that pushbike licences will create more problems than they solve and argue that minors should be legally allowed to stay off the road.

The Mike Baird government has substantially widened its key technology procurement mechanism, the ICT Services Scheme, to include hardware acquisition, software licencing and telecommunications contracts to reduce the costly process of tendering.

Alarm bells are ringing in both the bureaucracy and and unions that the National Commission of Audit’s figure of 15,000 job losses is badly understated when measured against the real scope of recommended cuts and outsourcing.