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Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor will use a key speech on Wednesday to outline plans to make the public sector more pro-investment.

Angus Taylor’s plan for scissor gang to cut red tape

Government regulation and bureaucratic rules are in the Coalition’s sights as part of its plans to boost the national economy.

  • Shane Wright

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A high-rise under construction in Bangkok collapses after an earthquake on March 28.

Kanittha can barely imagine returning to the office. It’s on the 29th floor

Friday’s earthquake emptied Bangkok into the streets and now darkens routines that involve living and working dozens of storeys above ground.

  • Damien Cave, Muktita Suhartono and Richard C. Paddock
Thai rescue workers remove a body recovered from the building that collapsed in Bangkok’s Chatuchak area.

A ‘signal’ is picked up in the rubble and the call goes out for quiet

It is three days almost to the moment since the under-construction office tower collapsed in Bangkok. But miracles can happen, and the staging area is buzzing.

  • Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae
A building under construction in Bangkok collapses after an earthquake on Friday.

Town waiting for answers after 10 of its men go missing in Bangkok tower collapse

Aye and her brother are holding vigil beside a four-storey mound of rubble in Thailand, hoping to get news for worried families in their home town 1000 kilometres away.

  • Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae
Katherine Sabbath loves her open-plan kitchen.

Why cake queen Katherine Sabbath ditched inner Sydney for the suburbs

Her first home was the moment she had been waiting for – the icing on the cake after a decade of saving hard for a deposit.

  • Jane Rocca
Leah Grinter in front of her Elwood art deco apartment block.

‘This is home’: The beautiful apartment buildings Leah had her heart set on

Some Melbourne home hunters are turning away from mass-produced stock in favour of restrained elegance and generous proportions – on a budget.

  • Emily Power
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The West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne.

Companies on public projects exposed in CFMEU federal police probe

More businesses with ties to bikies and the underworld have been revealed as the gangland corruption scandal deepens.

  • Nick McKenzie and Sarah Danckert
A builder has been accused of failing to obtain the correct permit for townhouses in Attwood, north-west of Melbourne.

A builder got a permit for a slab. He allegedly built three-storey townhouses instead

The Victorian Building Authority has filed criminal charges against a builder accused of ignoring orders to stop work on a townhouse project in Melbourne’s north-west.

  • Lachlan Abbott
CFMEU delegates dispersing from an emergency meeting in Melbourne on Tuesday.

CFMEU vows to act on organised crime, violence against women at emergency meeting

The union’s national secretary secured landmark support from hundreds of delegates for his push to rid the industry of gangland players.

  • Nick McKenzie and Sarah Danckert
Mario Barrios was a former long-serving top unionist at the CFMEU.

‘Cut off the head, the tentacles still in place’: CFMEU veteran lashes corruption clean up

Years ago, Mario Barrios stood up to George Alex. Now he fears things are even worse.

  • Nick McKenzie and Sarah Danckert

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