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| UpdatedA solicitor on Queensland's Gold Coast is taking legal action over Premier Campbell Newman's comments about lawyers and alleged bikies.
Topics: laws, public-sector, southport-4215
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The death of retired Alice Springs fire-fighter Christopher Lake has renewed calls for compensation for work related cancers.
Topics: death, cancer, public-sector, alice-springs-0870, nt
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| UpdatedThe company that wants to build a cruise ship terminal on Queensland's Gold Coast has agreed to revise its plans.
Topics: tourism, local-government, public-sector, activism-and-lobbying, urban-development-and-planning, regional-development, regional, southport-4215
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| UpdatedA fungal contamination is being blamed for a bad batch of chemotherapy drugs used to treat 17 Queensland cancer patients.
Queensland Health says the patients were in public and private hospitals across the state.
Topics: cancer, public-sector, pharmaceuticals, qld
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A coal action group says the Queensland Government's handling of a proposal to expand a Darling Downs mine is compromised because the company has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Liberal Party.
Topics: public-sector, activism-and-lobbying, mining-industry, liberals, liberal-national-party-queensland, coal, toowoomba-4350, oakey-4401, qld
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| UpdatedA new report commissioned by the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) shows privatisation in the electricity sector has been an expensive and dismal failure.
Topics: unions, public-sector, activism-and-lobbying, electricity-energy-and-utilities, privatisation-and-deregulation, qld
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| UpdatedA secret deal struck by the former Bligh government gives the Mater Hospital the option to buy land underneath the Queensland Children's Hospital for a dollar.
The Mater stands to gain 16 hectares of land, according to a confidential memorandum of understanding.
The agreement was signed in December 2008, three months before the Bligh government was to face an election.
The closure of the Royal Children's Hospital and the shift of staff and services to the new site beside the Mater sparked protests and a heated political atmosphere.
Topics: alp, programs-and-initiatives, healthcare-facilities, health-administration, public-sector, brisbane-4000
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A survey of Queenslanders shows satisfaction in regional councils has risen, while rural councils have recorded the lowest result.
Topics: local-government, public-sector, activism-and-lobbying, regional, community-development, townsville-4810, rockhampton-4700, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, gladstone-4680, longreach-4730, mackay-4740, maroochydore-4558, toowoomba-4350, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedThe CPSU's Nadine Flood fears public servants will lose conditions during enterprise bargaining talks to secure a pay rise over the next three years.
Topics: public-sector, federal-government, unions, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian Liberals want public servants pulled into line during the election campaign.
They have lodged complaints with the Premier's Department suggesting some may have breached caretaker conventions by making comments in the media.
Letters sent by the Opposition leader's Chief of Staff single out the Deputy Police Commissioner, Assistant Police Commissioner and a senior health bureaucrat.
The department says no caretaker conventions have been breached.
Topics: public-sector, states-and-territories, alp, liberals, tas
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| UpdatedQueensland Premier Campbell Newman has talked up the budgetary benefits of the liquefied natural gas industry during a trip to Curtis Island near Gladstone in the state's central region.
Topics: oil-and-gas, public-sector, liberal-national-party-queensland, gladstone-4680, port-curtis-4700
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government has accused the Isaac Regional Council of scaremongering over an application for a 3,000-bed mine workers' camp in the state's north.
Topics: public-sector, local-government, activism-and-lobbying, mining-industry, community-development, regional, regional-development, rockhampton-4700
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The Queensland Government has taken back some responsibilities for issuing heavy vehicle permits after concerns were raised by the trucking industry.
Topics: regulation, road-transport, transport, federal---state-issues, public-sector, qld, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, gladstone-4680, longreach-4730, mackay-4740, maroochydore-4558, mount-isa-4825, rockhampton-4700, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedA parent in Townsville says right to information documents show the Queensland Government's decision to close some schools last year was financially driven.
Topics: public-sector, activism-and-lobbying, public-schools, liberal-national-party-queensland, townsville-4810, stuart-4811, toowoomba-4350, brisbane-4000
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The main public sector union is hailing as a victory, a Federal Government decision to keep dozens of IT jobs in Tasmania.
Topics: federal-government, unions, public-sector, tas
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| UpdatedPremier Jay Weatherill has dismissed questions about Cabinet support for an innovation project and Liberal leader Steven Marshall has sought to draw a line in the sand on public sector job cuts.
The campaign is officially underway for the South Australian election on March 15.
The leaders have debated the issues on ABC Radio, ahead of a second face-to-face encounter on tonight in the ABC TV studios, when voters will have their chance to question the major parties.
Topics: states-and-territories, public-sector, elections, government-and-politics, unions, sa, adelaide-5000, australia
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| UpdatedA prominent Brisbane barrister has again criticised Queensland's anti-bikie laws.
Topics: laws, judges-and-legal-profession, public-sector, southport-4215
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| UpdatedA report has questioned the use of fuel cards by Northern Territory politicians and public servants.
Topics: government-and-politics, public-sector, corporate-governance, nt
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| UpdatedThe Australian Medical Association says Qld Premier Campbell Newman needs to step in to sort out a dispute over new contracts for senior doctors.
It says the contracts contain unfair provisions and remove job security.
AMA national president Steve Hambleton says doctors will quit the public health system in Queensland if their concerns are not addressed.
Health Minister Lawrence Springborg says the Government is happy to meet with Dr Hambleton.
"But we're not going to plough over old ground, particularly in this case when the AMA federal president has not been involved in the negotiations," he said.
Topics: public-sector, activism-and-lobbying, doctors-and-medical-professionals, qld
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| UpdatedQueensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg says the latest national report card on public hospitals is not accurate.
Topics: public-sector, federal---state-issues, healthcare-facilities, qld
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| UpdatedA Freedom of Information request has revealed a mass resignation of nurses at the Alice Springs Sexual Assault Referral Centre.
In their resignation email, obtained by the ABC, the nurses expressed concerns over a "lack of organisation at a departmental level".
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, public-sector, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedQueensland's unemployment rate has risen to 6.1 per cent, up from 5.9 per cent in December.
Topics: economic-trends, public-sector, work, unemployment, qld
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government has passed a law protecting individual public servants and police from being privately sued.
Topics: state-parliament, law-crime-and-justice, public-sector, laws, qld
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| UpdatedThe Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) has been asked to investigate whether some senior doctors have defrauded Queensland Health by claiming excess overtime and double-billing.
Topics: public-sector, state-parliament, doctors-and-medical-professionals, qld
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| UpdatedAn inquiry into the Goldfields Esperance Development Commission has found that leadership changes need to be made.
The GEDC has been under scrutiny after complaints from its own staff, and from shires in the north-eastern Goldfields.
The Shire of Laverton passed a unanimous vote of no confidence in the GEDC, saying it was too "Kalgoorlie-Esperance-centric".
Topics: public-sector, kalgoorlie-6430, esperance-6450