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Robo-debt legal problems were ‘black and white’ in 2014. Time and again they were ignored

The royal commission into the unlawful welfare debt recovery scheme has heard from a roll call of senior public servants highlighting a lack of communication, siloed work between departments and failures to pass on legal concerns.

  • Angus Thompson

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Firefighters from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, RFS and Fire & Rescue NSW conducting hazard-reduction burning in Blackheath during last week.

Rural Fire Service volunteer to give bullying report to MPs

Complaints about bullying, harassment and other misconduct within the RFS will be presented to Emergency Services Minister David Elliott and three other MPs this week.

  • Peter Hannam
Mark McGowan's emergency law stopping Clive Palmer from arbitration against the state is not as unprecedented as the WA government has us believe. A similar law was brought in against Lang Hancock and Peter Wright in the 1970s.

The massive 1970s court fight Mark McGowan will use to defend his emergency anti-Palmer law

WA will rely on a massive 1970s legal stoush involving a former Labor government and cast of legendary WA mining, legal and political giants to defend the validity of Premier Mark McGowan's anti-Clive Palmer law.

  • Nathan Hondros
Emergency legislation passed in WA might mean that Queensland businessman Clive Palmer can pursue the Commonwealth for compensation under Australia's free-trade agreements.

Fears WA's rushed anti-Palmer law could cost Commonwealth billions in free-trade dispute

The high-powered law firm tasked with advising the WA government on its anti-Clive Palmer law was instructed to ignore an issue that could leave the Commonwealth carrying the can in a multi-billion dollar legal stoush.

  • Nathan Hondros

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