Latest National news
Major parties 'neglecting work, family issues'
Anna Patty 12:15 AM Anouk Sireude resigned from her job when she was 12 weeks pregnant because another company offered her an extra month of paid parental leave.
Airservices Australia staff face further job cuts as morale drops
Henry Belot 11:23 PM Tough times for Airservices Australia as hundreds of jobs are to go amid dwindling morale.
Warning public service hurt by lack of economic specialists
Henry Belot 11:22 PM A lack of skilled economic analysts in the public service is hurting policy and leading to poor investments, ANU professor warns.
Medicare outsourcing a 'licence to steal'
Noel Towell 11:21 PM Claims processing must be in the hands of public servants who are not motivated by profit, medical billing services pioneer Margaret Faux has written in a passionate defence of Medicare.
The guitar 'I was only 19' was written on is now at the War Memorial
Callum Marshall 10:35 PM The custom-built left hand guitar marks the humble beginnings of one of Australia's most iconic songs about war and the emotional scars it leaves on veterans.
Why aren't we managing childrens' pain?
Rachel Rabkin Peachman 9:55 PM Experts say that paediatric pain has long been underrecognized and undertreated, with serious long-term consequences.
Barnaby Joyce postpones further public service relocations
Henry Belot 7:55 PM Deputy PM sidelines further moves after public backlash.
The disgusting truth about germs on public transport
Bridie Smith 7:42 PM Humans aren't the only creatures moving around on public transport. Bacteria are also riding the roads and rails. Which raises the question: what bacterial passenger did you pick up when you grabbed the handrail this morning?
'No friend of the arts': University of Sydney slammed by associate professor for closing art school
Andrew Taylor 6:34 PM Sydney University is no friend of the arts and set up its art school for failure as anger rages about the merger of its art school with the University of NSW.
National Art School, UNSW merger 'on the cards'
Andrew Taylor 5:40 PM Sydney may be left with just one tertiary art school, with the head of the National Art School conceding the institution may be forced into a merger with the University of NSW.
'What has happened to these cadets will happen again'
Rachel Browne 4:22 PM A former air force cadet has delivered a scathing assessment of the ADF to a royal commission.
No touching rules treated as a 'joke'
Rachel Browne 12:20 PM ''We went back to his house after one of the shoots and he brought us alcohol and there were other navy cadet instructors at his home at the time when the incident took place.''
When prolonging life is just prolonging death
Kate Aubusson 12:08 PM More than one-third of elderly patients hospitalised at the end of their life received invasive and potentially harmful medical treatments.
Protesters blockade Wilson Security car parks over detention centres
Refugee and asylum seeker advocates will mark 100 days of protests by people in Nauru by blockading Wilson Security car parks in Sydney and Melbourne.
'Deliberately sneaky': schools cost blowout slammed
James Robertson It was meant to streamline the education department's administration software but the Learning Management and Business Reform project has been dogged by technical faults and delays for years. Â
'My daughter's life an abject waste'
Rachel Browne They joined cadets as teenagers hoping for adventure but a royal commission has heard how their lives were destroyed
Public service blows $7.6 billion-a-year on contractors
Noel Towell Labor pledges war on waste and death to the efficiency dividend.
US airmen, Border Force officials allegedly help crime gangs
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker Sydney-based US Air Force personnel, Australian Border Force officials and Commonwealth-licensed customs brokers are suspected to have joined international crime syndicates involved in smuggling.
Protect ATO whistleblower: Xenophon
Noel Towell Man who exposed Tax Office's 'covert operations' living a Kafka-esque nightmare' says Senator.
Visa scammer captured in hidden camera sting
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker A prominent member of Melbourne's Indian community said he knew of at least 40 Indians who had paid large cash sums to obtain fake skilled and student visas in an effort to get permanent residency.
Minister confident TAMS can cope with loss of four executives
Christopher Knaus Four senior executives have left Territory and Municipal Services in recent months, following merger.
ATO's 'covert operations' exposed
Noel Towell This man blew the whistle on the Tax Office's "covert operations" against taxpayers. They sacked him.
Public service leaders told to dispel gender myths and improve diversity
Henry Belot Diversity Council chief executive Lisa Annese has called on senior public servants to dispel myths about the barriers women face in the workforce and career progression.
Corruption and crime syndicates threaten border security
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker People smugglers and crime gangs are systemically rorting Australia's working and student visa programs in various scams involving suspected corrupt immigration officials, employers and migration agents.
Cancer patients outsourced, then 'mistakenly' charged
Harriet Alexander Public patients were surprised to be transferred to a private hospital, but then they received a letter with worse news.
'It was a bit of a shock': Cost of putting a child through uni
Inga Ting Louisa Wilson's parents are up for five figures - and that's without paying her HECS.
Is a NSW preschooler worth less than a Victorian child?
Kelsey Munro Is a NSW child worth less? – asks the campaign run by the community childcare peak body.
'Unintended consequence': how Australia stripped an Australian of citizenship
Eamonn Duff She has voted in 10 federal elections, worked for ministers and travelled the world as an Australian national. Now immigration is refusing to reissue her passport - because she cannot prove she's a citizen.
Canberra's first public service workplace LGBTI inclusion conference
Kimberley Le Lievre The Australian Tax Office will co-host the public service's first LGBTIÂ inclusion conference on Friday.
Young Aussies hit Asia by the thousands to study, while unis slash Asia jobs
Daniel Flitton More than 10,000 young Australian students have won government sponsorship to study in Asia in the last three years, but universities at home are cutting back on Asian studies courses.
