A bid to extract $73 million a year from public servants driving to work carries a raft of restrictions that prevent spot sharing and penalise car-pooling using different vehicles.
10 March, 2014
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has flown to the United States to see first hand how a collaboration between the Queensland University of Technology and the California Institute of Technology can help mitigate and better manage natural disasters.
10 March, 2014
Australia’s peak rail body has insisted that the Victorian government reinvests the planned sale of the Port of Melbourne into other vital transport infrastructure across the state to boost economic activity.
7 March, 2014
Electronic efficiency flicks the switch for national verification-as-a-service.
6 March, 2014
The public service union is digging in for drawn out battle over entitlements after the government opened bidding with the offer of a wage freeze.
6 March, 2014
Government called on to lead by example to get operational savings of up to eight per cent.
6 March, 2014
An ambitious long term project to place Victoria’s high voltage powerlines underground is digging in to prevent a repeat of the devastating ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires of 2009.
6 March, 2014
The nation’s capital is planning to build a new “innovation precinct” to attract research and development into solar power with the goal of making Canberra a “leading city” in renewable energy.
6 March, 2014
Parking spaces for vessels the size of office blocks are getting harder to find in the Harbour City, thanks to a low hanging Harbour Bridge and a strong Navy presence.
5 March, 2014
The uncharted landscape of the digital world has led the National Archives of Australia to create a new training course to help information managers deal with the new challenges in the digital economy.
4 March, 2014
All eyes are on whether a bid to force public servants to be reapply for their jobs will spread beyond the Department of Communications.
4 March, 2014
One of the world’s leading computing companies has rediscovered the innovative benefits of putting ideas onto paper at work. Just don’t ask for a desk.
3 March, 2014
A drive by Prime Minister Tony Abbott to foster greater economic development in the top of the continent through a White Paper on Northern Australia has been welcomed by Queensland councils, who hope it will produce better infrastructure and minimise regulatory overheads.
3 March, 2014
A pledge by the South Australian Opposition to force rate pegging onto local governments after the March election has put councils immediately offside.
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