Still work to do in NT: Gillard
JULIA Gillard has spent the day in Alice Springs but had to defend her decision not to visit town camps where Aborigines live in appalling conditions.
Milanda Rout
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Welcome to country: PM’s reality check
DAVID Winjinana is sitting in his wheelchair outside the tent he calls home.
National medical body ‘a debacle’
THE introduction of a national medical registration body was a “debacle” that resulted in doctors being unknowingly deregistered.
National medical body ‘a debacle’
THE introduction of a national medical registration body was a “debacle” that resulted in doctors being unknowingly deregistered and losing income.
$300k went to private schools that shut
THE federal government gave almost $300,000 in BER funding to private schools that were forced to close.
BER’s $2bn kick to economy
ALMOST $2bn of the government’s schools building program is yet to be spent more than two years after the end of the global financial crisis.
‘Divisive’ academic paid $641 daily fee
INDIGENOUS academic Larissa Behrendt is being paid $641 a day to conduct a review of Aboriginal higher education.
Student visa breaches mounting
THE government is failing to keep track of hundreds of thousands of potential breaches in the international student visa program.
Labor hypocrisy on ACT pokies clubs
THE government has fended off hypocrisy claims over links to pokies clubs as it tries to drive through gambling reforms promised to Andrew Wilkie.
Conroy defends ruling on aerial repairs
STEPHEN Conroy has faced a grilling over whether pensioners who rented their homes were being treated fairly in the free set-top box scheme.
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