Last week’s public disclosure of gender pay gaps at 5000 Australian companies was a first, and comes almost a decade after an attempt by the Coalition government to dismantle the reporting regime.
A coroner’s inquest into the death of a young Indigenous man has revealed disturbing allegations about the police officer involved and the force’s higher command.
Dunkley is a template of the kind of seat Peter Dutton needs to win to take office. His failure at last weekend’s byelection informs a seat-by-seat analysis that shows victory is almost impossible.
Changes to Australian laws after pressure from foreign and domestic fossil fuel giants highlight the success of lobbying by the industry’s biggest players.
Ten years ago, Martin McKenzie-Murray saw the destruction of Morwell’s coal mine fire. Its legacy is a community disillusioned and abandoned by a corporate disaster.
With fewer disadvantaged children completing high school, the federal government is under pressure to cover a shortfall with the states in public school funding.
As Scott Morrison leaves parliament for a defence consultancy, the Liberal Party in NSW is struggling with factional disputes where the right alone has split into at least 10 sub-factions.
A legal fight to speed up responses to freedom of information requests could set a precedent to stop governments starving key public services of funding.
Hidden in legislation is a plan to give Resources Minister Madeleine King power to approve gas projects – taking the oversight away from Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.
