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Teachers, principals and education support staff have voted to accept the government’s latest pay offer, ending a year-long standoff.
Staffing and budget issues, along with several recent near misses at Sydney Airport, have thrown the spotlight on the government-owned corporation.
Cash-strapped Australians struggling with the cost of living should be able to apply for early access to their superannuation, One Nation says.
Defence pay talks set a low benchmark for Commonwealth wage negotiations, with unions pushing for stronger increases amid high inflation.
NACC inspector Gail Furness told parliament last week that her relationship with the commission has improved since Paul Brereton's departure.
One supplier was alleged to have fraudulently claimed around $4 million in public funds.
Some say senior bureaucrats, who can take home up to $1 million, are paid too much.
The federal disability minister has defended changes to the NDIS, flagging further amendments to tackle fraud and win parliamentary support.
Programs that allow people with disabilities to come together and find real community – as well as learn coping skills they can use in the world – are under threat as the government tries to rein in NDIS spending.
Continuous investigations have led to the Australian Federal Police arresting an Adelaide man as he attempted to leave the country, following the previous arrest of a 48-year-old woman in June.
Partners say they ‘don’t recall’ leaked papers and are accused by lawyers of being misleading as more whistleblowers come forward Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast KPMG staff misled colleagues who tried to...
The long awaited $915 million project will open its doors to the public later this year with a lineup of mostly free exhibitions.
Matt Canavan said backpackers had not been the cause of high migration, and visas would not be touched.
A long-awaited report into the cost reductions only made one recommendation: that the bill should be passed.
In emotional testimony, the firm’s deputy general counsel told a parliamentary inquiry that his investigation was hampered in order to hide wrongdoing.
The law firms, two of the oldest and best, “stand by” the reports they wrote that mostly cleared KPMG over its scandal.
A woman recruited by former Wagga MP Daryl Maguire to participate in a fraudulent visa scheme has received a prison sentence of almost three years, but will not go to jail.
Interim report calls for carve-up deal that has only benefited Western Australia to be ‘reshaped’ as it has achieved almost none of its objectives Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free...
It’s the third recent incident in Sydney, putting pressure on the government-owned body responsible for air traffic control to explain the delay.
Westpac and Optus are among former KPMG clients fronting a Senate hearing into the consultancy giant's whistleblower scandal.
Two levels of government are in a deadlock over what to do about the Northern Territory Remote Housing agreement, which Senator Lidia Thorpe says is falling "behind schedule" and failing those it is designed to help.
Allens’ investigation found a phone screenshot and email details that raised fresh questions over KPMG’s audit scandal.
The former head of Catholic Schools NSW says he did seek financial support from federal Opposition Leader Angus Taylor, but denied it was for a right-wing Liberal factional group at the centre of a corruption probe.
Attorney-general Michelle Rowland granted the former army lawyer parole on Thursday morning.
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