The budget’s failure to deliver the funds recommended in a review two months earlier leaves community legal services with a massive shortfall and pleading with the attorney-general for assistance.
With the Coalition stepping up attacks on the immigration minister, Home Affairs insiders spoke to The Saturday Paper about much-needed reforms to the department.
A week before the long-awaited report into consulting services, it can be revealed that KPMG was given $1.3 million to train the public service in ethics.
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the Indigenous Affairs minister dismisses speculation about her political future and says the ‘fire is still raging’ to deliver change.
Right-wing and libertarian lobby groups are expanding their funding and influence since the Voice to Parliament referendum, and the free speech union is the latest addition to a growing ecosystem.
The party has learnt some lessons from the last election in its selection of professional women to contest three seats lost to independents. Can they convince voters turned off by Peter Dutton’s platform?
Staffers and politicians say workplace culture has been slow to improve. Unredacted survey results obtained by The Saturday Paper reveal the full extent of the failures that prompted the reforms.
The budget is a pitch to make investments in green projects the centrepiece of the next federal election – but observers say the plan lacks coherence and that it will take a year to sell that vision.
As a review of the Lobbying Code of Conduct draws criticism from transparency advocates, lobbyists are descending on Canberra to take expensive seats at fundraisers around the most important night of the political year.
