Phones have been seized and legal advice sought, as a string of explosive text messages reveal Rebekah Brown’s alleged involvement in the toppling of her predecessor as vice-chancellor, Genevieve Bell.
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A year on from a US private prison provider taking over onshore immigration detention centres, workers report chronic staffing shortages, leading to more suffering for detainees.
The critically endangered swift parrot is being driven to extinction and the Albanese government is not intervening to stop the key cause of the bird’s decline.
ANALYSIS: In a troubled economic environment exacerbated by oil price shocks, a Liberal Party policy that rules out tax increases looks like magical thinking.
EXCLUSIVE: The treasurer lays out his approach to this budget in a time of crisis, with a focus on intergenerational equity and a defence of the NDIS clampdown.
Refinements to poll weighting and other methodology, implemented after the 2019 election, make experts believe One Nation’s numbers are accurate and could see the party overtake the Coalition.
The peak body alerted the health minister more than a year ago that his expanded bulk-billing policy meant underpaying for longer consults – exacerbating what was already a significant pay gap for female doctors.
