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Port Douglas - the perfect place for a passport conference.

Passport office blew $135,000 on cancelled Port Douglas conference

Officials from Australia’s passport office are under investigation after a damning report said it had mishandled hundreds of millions, including huge blowouts on a contract proposed over a coffee.

  • Shane Wright and Olivia Ireland

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Former Anindilyakwa Land Council chief executive Mark Hewitt.

Land council raided by anti-corruption watchdog, CEO sacked

Mark Hewitt has been stood down by the Anindilyakwa Land Council board and the National Anti-Corruption Commission this week searched its Groote Eylandt office.

  • Mike Foley and Nick McKenzie
Premier Jacinta Allan and Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop Danny Pearson at the Box Hill construction site in July.

Victoria holds up $2.2b in Suburban Rail Loop funds, auditor finds

The Allan government has not submitted crucial information that would unlock funding promised by the Commonwealth for the mega-project.

  • Patrick Hatch and Annika Smethurst
French champagne cork France bubbly generic sparkling wines celebrating celebrations parties party. SMH GOOD WEEKEND Picture by iSTOCK GW110528

Amid champagne gifts and shameless rorting, one institution is fighting back

The national audit office has released a series of scandalous reports that show our public bureaucracy falling apart, at a cost to us all.

  • Shane Wright
A Defence official sought a bottle of champagne while negotiating a billion dollar munitions contract.

Defence official sought champagne from contractor: auditor-general

A scathing auditor-general’s report into a $1.2 billion defence contract reveals an official sought a bottle of champagne from the company.

  • Shane Wright
The Federal Court spent more than $34,000 at bottle shops over a two-year period.

Federal Court faulted for spending $34,000 at grog shops

The court, which spent more than $6000 over three occasions at one Bondi cellars alone, is one of three federal agencies marked down by the Australian National Audit Office.

  • Angus Thompson
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Former prime minister Scott Morrison.

War Memorial scandal: Morrison pushed $500m project before business case was done

The controversial project was spruiked by Scott Morrison just months into his prime ministership and has since seen cost blowouts and conflicts of interest over key contracts.

  • Shane Wright
Peter Dutton

Dutton bypassed Indigenous community safety for grants in Coalition seats

Labor has seized on new documents to turn the blowtorch on Dutton and his commitment to safety in remote communities over a Voice to parliament.

  • Paul Sakkal
Michelle Rowland during question time on Wednesday.

Investigation launched into Labor’s mobile phone black spot scheme

The Australian National Audit Office investigation announced on Wednesday is the first into alleged pork-barrelling by the government since the election.

  • Paul Sakkal
Ringwood railway station car park in suburban Melbourne. It was one of those at the centre of the car park program examined by joint parliamentary committee.

‘Industrial-scale rort’: Plan to end the government pork barrel

A joint parliamentary committee has flagged plans to restrict the ability of future governments to pork-barrel their way to electoral victory.

  • Shane Wright

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