Petrol — where you can still get it — has hit a record high price as the country's fuel supplies head 'for a cliff', and ABC staff's first strike in
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Local governments in New South Wales have moved swiftly to secure fuel supplies that underpin essential local services, amid major price and availability fluctuations that could threaten service delivery. As states and the Commonwealth contemplate potential market intervention to arrest gouging and gaming by fuel distributors and retailers, councils have
The NSW treasurer wants to “stop the rip-off” of GST arrangements, calling for wholesale changes to the way the tax revenue is distributed each year. Commenting on the state government’s submission to an inquiry into GST reform, led by the Productivity Commission, Daniel Mookhey said current settings were complex and
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has all but hit the official pause button on the state government’s controversial attempt to push public servants back into the office, using question time in parliament to say that his government was prepared to use working from home to reduce fuel demand if
Geoscience Australia will focus on the transition to net zero, economic security, and climate resilience over the next 10 years, according to a strategy document released yesterday. Applied geoscience underpins around $124 billion in economic activity each year, primarily through the resources industry. The strategy, Shaping Our Future: Geoscience Australia
Tasmanians will have 50 fewer local government representatives next year. The state government has released its final position in a review of councillor allowances and numbers. Under the proposal, Tasmania’s five largest urban councils would each have nine councillors. The other 24 would have seven each, making 213 in total.
The sealed section of the robodebt royal commission report has finally been released. It comes two-and-a-half years after the royal commission handed down its report, and almost six years after the cruel and illegal robodebt scheme was discontinued. As a reminder, robodebt began in 2016. It used automated data-matching to
The New South Wales Police Force put out an appeal for information about a string of recent vehicle thefts that are alleged to have taken place on Wiradjuri land in the western New South Wales town of Warren.
The initial incident involved officers from the Orana Mid-Western Police District being called out to the Oxley Highway in Warren, after ...
Barbarossa. Pearl Harbor. Swindon? Surprise attacks can, in a moment, change the course of history, the destiny of a nation and the future of a leader. After it was revealed this weekend that the Iranians have developed missiles capable of reaching the United Kingdom – and reportedly attempted to hit the UK-US military base on the Chagos islands – we ...
From Kowloon: The final tally from the South Australian state election will take some time. That’s because something remarkable is unfolding … One Nation is no longer being counted as a mere preference flow to prop up the Liberals. Instead, as the counting is finalised, One Nation votes are being tallied directly against Labor. That single shift tells ...
Cambodia is gaining serious investor attention as growth, trade and infrastructure draw regional business leaders to its evolving market. read now...
It’s been hard to ignore growing fears of a looming fuel shortage in Australia. Conflict in the Middle East has led to what the International Energy Agency has called the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market”. The federal government has been at pains to reassure
Petrol — where you can still get it — has hit a record high price as the country's fuel supplies head 'for a cliff', and ABC staff's first strike in
Local governments in New South Wales have moved swiftly to secure fuel supplies that underpin essential local services, amid major price and availability fluctuations that could threaten service delivery. As states and the Commonwealth contemplate potential market intervention to arrest gouging and gaming by fuel distributors and retailers, councils have
The NSW treasurer wants to “stop the rip-off” of GST arrangements, calling for wholesale changes to the way the tax revenue is distributed each year. Commenting on the state government’s submission to an inquiry into GST reform, led by the Productivity Commission, Daniel Mookhey said current settings were complex and
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has all but hit the official pause button on the state government’s controversial attempt to push public servants back into the office, using question time in parliament to say that his government was prepared to use working from home to reduce fuel demand if
Geoscience Australia will focus on the transition to net zero, economic security, and climate resilience over the next 10 years, according to a strategy document released yesterday. Applied geoscience underpins around $124 billion in economic activity each year, primarily through the resources industry. The strategy, Shaping Our Future: Geoscience Australia
Tasmanians will have 50 fewer local government representatives next year. The state government has released its final position in a review of councillor allowances and numbers. Under the proposal, Tasmania’s five largest urban councils would each have nine councillors. The other 24 would have seven each, making 213 in total.
The sealed section of the robodebt royal commission report has finally been released. It comes two-and-a-half years after the royal commission handed down its report, and almost six years after the cruel and illegal robodebt scheme was discontinued. As a reminder, robodebt began in 2016. It used automated data-matching to
The New South Wales Police Force put out an appeal for information about a string of recent vehicle thefts that are alleged to have taken place on Wiradjuri land in the western New South Wales town of Warren.
The initial incident involved officers from the Orana Mid-Western Police District being called out to the Oxley Highway in Warren, after ...
Barbarossa. Pearl Harbor. Swindon? Surprise attacks can, in a moment, change the course of history, the destiny of a nation and the future of a leader. After it was revealed this weekend that the Iranians have developed missiles capable of reaching the United Kingdom – and reportedly attempted to hit the UK-US military base on the Chagos islands – we ...
From Kowloon: The final tally from the South Australian state election will take some time. That’s because something remarkable is unfolding … One Nation is no longer being counted as a mere preference flow to prop up the Liberals. Instead, as the counting is finalised, One Nation votes are being tallied directly against Labor. That single shift tells ...
Cambodia is gaining serious investor attention as growth, trade and infrastructure draw regional business leaders to its evolving market. read now...
It’s been hard to ignore growing fears of a looming fuel shortage in Australia. Conflict in the Middle East has led to what the International Energy Agency has called the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market”. The federal government has been at pains to reassure