The government’s stalled responses to gambling reforms has more to do with the power of television networks and media proprietors than it does with the betting industry itself.
A new aged-care bill gives explicit powers to place people under the age of 65 with disability into residential aged care, although the government claims the laws will improve the situation.
As one man tries to find work, he has been failed in multiple and complicating ways, with the government outsourcing his case to an employment services company owned out of Florida by a group of men who made their fortune in turbo ovens.
As Australian authorities battle to contain an outbreak of avian influenza, they are braced for the possible arrival of a subtype that is devastating bird and mammal populations overseas.
As the government struggles to pass its NDIS reforms, the scheme’s reviewer says he was briefed on focus group research before he completed his recommendations.
A decade after the establishment of Our Watch, sources say the framework to end gendered violence was based on research that was incomplete and modified for political reasons.
EXCLUSIVE: An investigation into multiple technology contracts signed to support the new Aged Care Act has raised doubts over the Commonwealth’s capacity to properly manage the delayed implementation of the law.
As the government misses its deadline to introduce a new aged-care act, the industry and the opposition are fighting back over a proposal to impose criminal penalties for neglect.
An outbreak of bird flu threatens to reach the little penguin population on Phillip Island, as thousands of short-tailed shearwaters begin their migration to lay eggs. A plan is being made to protect the penguins, although it is currently secret.
