Yes please minister: Labor spends billions on advice By Edmund Tadros and Markus Mannheim The federal government has spent half a billion dollars a year on consultants since Labor won office 4½ years ago, an analysis of its contracts shows. Yet while Finance Minister Penny Wong has warned agencies to…
Yes please minister: Labor spends billions on advice
By Edmund Tadros and Markus Mannheim Get the data The federal government has spent half a billion dollars a year on consultants since Labor won office 4½ years ago, an analysis of its contracts shows. Yet while Finance Minister Penny Wong has warned agencies to slash this spending, few public…
ADFA’s decade of sex claims
By Edmund Tadros and Markus Mannheim Australia’s military university has filed at least 29 formal reports of alleged sexual offences over the past decade, including claims a female cadet was king-hit and raped while unconscious. But the records, obtained under freedom of information law, may represent a mere fraction of…
Freedom-of-Information stories
ADFA’s decade of sex claims Australia’s military university has filed at least 29 formal reports of alleged sexual offences over the past decade, including claims a female cadet was king-hit and raped while unconscious. But the records, obtained under freedom of information law, may represent a mere fraction of all…
Business stories
Workplace Qantas loses fight with Falun Gong flight attendant QANTAS has been ordered to reinstate a flight attendant banned from international duties over her practise of Falun Gong. Sheridan Genrich, of Sydney’s Lane Cove, was demoted to short-haul after she was threatened by authorities during a 2008 Beijing stopover and…