Scottish taxpayers would not pay a cent for the 2026 Commonwealth Games under an extraordinary new bid to host the event, with Victorian taxpayers instead handing over almost $200m to cover its cost.
Officeworks has engaged lawyers from a top international law firm to respond to discrimination allegations after a Jewish man was refused service by a “pro-Palestine” worker at its Elsternwick store.
Children as young as five will be asked if they identify as a she, he or they as part of new taxpayer-funded guidelines being introduced at public libraries across the state.
The hotly anticipated report into Victoria’s construction sector has called for beefed-up powers for the state’s integrity agencies to go after corruption on the state’s Big Build sites.
One of Victoria’s most senior ministers, Lily D’Ambrosio, has backed in a test case which would give clerical employees — a class of worker that includes receptionists — the legal right to work from home.
Jacinta Allan insists the first stage of the train line will be operational by 2035, despite a leading law firm now exploring scenarios around rephasing the project.
Jacinta Allan has hit back at federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton over his call to ban all Gazan refugees, saying the “hurtful” comments left her “deeply uncomfortable”.
Outlaw motorcycle gang members will be banned from wearing club logos and booted off government construction sites under a long-awaited crackdown, but the opposition says it is fundamentally flawed.
An investigation into a “never-before-seen” health emergency has been ordered after an ambulance crew had to be sent into a hospital to save a woman because the emergency department was overrun.
AusNet workers have been captured on camera cutting padlocks to enter a farm in Victoria’s northwest without permission, as the Allan government strengthens its plan to roll out transmission lines across the state.
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