Hospital developments are being announced across NSW, but the government has refused requests from its own department to adequately fund new medical staffing.
A report by the ombudsman has found police and integrity agencies routinely break the law in handling private data and are getting worse rather than better.
As Tanya Plibersek grants final approval for a fertiliser plant on the Burrup Peninsula, Woodside has quietly begun expansion of its enormous Pluto gas project.
In 2008 Labor pledged to halve homelessness, instead it exploded in a decade of Coalition leadership. Now a new national agreement must tackle a ‘vicious spiral’ of unaffordable housing and poverty.
New details have emerged in the governor-general’s grant saga, with David Hurley hosting fundraising events for the leadership foundation at Admiralty House.
As the Albanese government prepares to finalise a Nauru contract with an American prisons operator, the cost of the brutal enterprise has stretched into billions of dollars.
In approving almost 47,000 square kilometres for offshore oil and gas exploration, the Labor government is jeopardising its climate target and echoing the Coalition’s spurious case for energy security.
The latest changes to Covid-19 rules – shortening isolation periods and removing some mask mandates – were made without any written advice and no modelling was provided to national cabinet.
