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Queensland has directed $363 million towards reforming the state’s approach to domestic violence.

The interim report considers the QPS’s ‘integrity patchwork’ and issues around capability, ministerial staff and lobbying.

The mystery of who contributed to a blind legal trust paying for Christian Porter’s defamation suit will not be investigated by the House privileges committee.

The timber workers’ union has raised concerns about a bill before the Victorian legislative council on Tuesday, calling for an inquiry and consultation before the passage of any legislation.

Phil Gaetjens has suspended his ‘who knew what, when’ inquiry into claims of an alleged rape at parliament house in 2019.

The Australian aquaculture sector plateaued in recent years to just over $1 billion. A parliamentary inquiry will now probe why.

Representatives from the legal community have added their voices to the growing calls for an independent inquiry into historical rape allegations against attorney-general Christian Porter. Porter on Wednesday rejected allegations that he raped a 16-year-old in Sydney in 1988, stating that he had never had any sexual contact with the now deceased woman. Following the […]

A NSW corruption probe has heard call recordings between premier Gladys Berejiklian and Daryl Maguire discussing personal financial details.

ANAO performance audit services group executive director Brian Boyd told a senate inquiry that McKenzie’s senior adviser had created a document of ‘talking points’ detailing how expanding the grants program would have funded 109 more projects in marginal and target seats.

The inquiry on Monday heard that Nagle’s wife had received $750 a day to train icare staff between 2016 and 2019. She was awarded the contract without a tender.

There are no ‘systemic’ failures to address, special commissioner Bret Walker has found.

NSW Health was “irresponsible” in allowing Ruby Princess passengers showing COVID-19 symptoms to disembark, according to the commissioner leading a special inquiry into the cruise ship. The inquiry on Wednesday heard that despite 104 passengers reporting an acute respiratory infection, only 10 people were tested for COVID-19 before the ship docked in Sydney on March […]

Services Australia has taken a Senate inquiry into visa privatisation and robodebt as an opportunity to justify the benefits of outsourcing. In a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Services Australia explained that outsourcing employees has been a “cost-effective” way for the department to deliver its services.