Former Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce and chairman Richard Goyder are expected to be top of the list of people the senate aviation inquiry will decide it wants to summon when it meets for the first time on Thursday.

Taxpayers are paying councils tens of millions of dollars for the privilege of having their garbage bins collected once a fortnight as weekly pick-ups are being scrapped.

Victorians are being warned to be on high alert of bushfire risks with warmer and drier conditions predicted, but the state won’t face the same catastrophic scenes experienced in Hawaii, Canada and Greece.

Corruption investigations into politicians and public servants will be kept secret from Queenslanders unless laws are urgently changed in light of a landmark High Court decision, the state’s powerful watchdog has warned.

South Australian taxpayers will likely shell out at least $70m for a late swoop on one of Adelaide’s premier pieces of land for housing in a move amid a developer backlash.