Victoria’s auditor-general says the joint venture to sell bridge safety monitors was backed by inaccurate advice and boss Campbell Rose “went against the code of conduct”.
As the fallout continues over the conduct of Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo,the Albanese government will be grappling with how to re-establish institutional checks on power.
It’s an age-old truism for a reason,and one even my mother,now dead for nearly 40 years,drilled into me after reading my teen diary.
The purge of 77 roles at Family Safety Victoria has alarmed staff who say violence against women remains stubbornly high.
Reporter Gary Adshead was methodically exposing the Perth MP’s multiple lies over faked war medals when a chance conversation led him even deeper into the mystery.
This week on The Reporter podcast,Gary Adshead tells Michael Thomson how he launched an investigation that would finally land its subject in jail.
This reporter was told he had a “bum steer”,“not really a story”. Undaunted,he launched an investigation that would finally land its subject in jail.
You can’t replace consultants overnight,and if the government strips back their numbers it’s going to need to pay public servants better salaries.
The public sector union has warned Victorian child protection workers will be unable to effectively do their jobs if 400 positions are cut in mass redundancies.
The NSW Labor administration may be buying time with a raft of reviews launched since the election,but government inquiries have a chequered history.
Federal politicians will get a pay rise on Thursday after the agency that sets MPs’ wages said previous pay reviews had been conservative.