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Investors are demanding answers over what G8 Education knew about alleged childcare abuser Joshua Brown.

Daycare chain’s investors demand answers over childcare safety crisis

Shareholders want explanations from childcare chain G8 following revelations by this masthead over its handling of the Joshua Dale Brown case.

  • Carla Jaeger, Noel Towell and Sherryn Groch

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How childcare providers led police on a wild goose chase for an alleged paedophile

Joshua Brown had been fired from at least three other childcare centres before he was arrested and had glaring errors on his CV, this masthead can reveal.

  • Sherryn Groch, Caroline Schelle and Carla Jaeger
Jiselle Hanna was elected secretary, and Mitch Vandewerdt-Holman assistant secretary, of the CPSU in Victoria.

The newly elected militants leading the public sector union

Public service workers bracing for thousands of job cuts have elected a new leadership at their union for the first time in 32 years. Jiselle Hanna doesn’t want to waste her unlikely success.

  • Rachel Eddie
Senior public servant Karen Dawson

Senior public servant allegedly busted trash-talking new director-general

Details of the senior Queensland manager’s “inappropriate and unprofessional” comments have been aired in a tribunal.

  • James Hall and Cloe Read
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Mike Kaiser (centre) and then-Queensland premier Steven Miles in December 2023.

Queensland’s former top public servant lands plush gig

The first public servant sacked under the Crisafulli government has landed a plum new job, with Anthony Albanese tapping Mike Kaiser to head a vital department.

  • Cameron Atfield
National Anti-Corruption Commission boss Paul Brereton.

National Anti-Corruption Commission suppresses name of corrupt public servant

Following the first public release of a NACC investigation earlier this week, the commission suppressed the name of the senior public servant.

  • Olivia Ireland
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The number of vacancies in the construction sector jumped by 20 per cent over the past three months.

Australia now has 1 million public servants despite government vows to cut red tape

The share of people working in the private sector has slumped to an all-time low, with a record number working in the public bureaucracy.

  • Shane Wright
Jaclyn Symes told budget estimates hearings that automation and new technology would be key ways the government could make savings.

Bots to help fill Victoria’s budget hole: State hopes AI can slash costs

Treasurer Jaclyn Symes says AI and automation will help the government find $3.3 billion in savings.

  • Daniella White
Corrections Victoria officer Jiselle Hanna is campaigning to lead the Victorian branch of the Community and Public Sector Union.

An ice axe and a ‘gangland identity’ spice up public-sector union fight

A campaign for control of Victoria’s 15,000-member public service union has turned personal, as members prepare to vote while facing job cuts.

  • Adam Carey

Where Albanese and Dutton stand on the eight key issues in this election

New tax and housing policies are latecomers to the campaign agenda that will dominate debate. Medicare and a nuclear energy fight are also in the conversation.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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