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- Melbourne childcare crisis
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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- Australia votes
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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