A defiant John Pesutto has challenged rivals to blast him from the leadership in the wake of a damning Federal Court defamation judgment that has awarded expelled Liberal MP Moira Deeming $300,000 in damages.
John Pesutto had a terrible day in court and he’s still got Moira Deeming breathing down his neck.
Parks Victoria’s five remaining directors have had their terms slashed as the Allan government mulls whether to dump the crisis-ridden organisation.
Cultural heritage experts have known for decades many of the rock art and quarry sites at Victoria’s Mount Arapiles are of minor significance.
Parks Victoria boss Matthew Jackson’s had faced weeks of uncertainty over his job after his organisation had made a series of misjudgments.
From the outset five years ago, Parks Victoria went on a mission to discredit a politically weak user group with every blunt pen-pushing instrument it could find.
Parks Victoria boss Matthew Jackson has left the organisation and a review will be held into it after the rolling chaos caused by cultural heritage climbing bans.
The bungled handling of Mount Arapiles rock climbing bans has sparked demands for bureaucratic relief and a meeting with First Nations people.
The union has criticised the Albanese government over wind towers, saying it’s time for it to invest in, or encourage, local content in renewables.
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Mainland Australia’s last wind tower manufacturer will be forced to mothball its plant in a major embarrassment for Labor, after cheap imports using Chinese steel have destroyed the local industry.
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