Union claims a 'recipe for disaster' for Melbourne's fire brigade
A "restrictive" workplace deal sought by the firefighters' union would be a "recipe for disaster" for Melbourne's fire brigade, a parliamentary hearing has been told.
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Richard Willingham
Australia dairy crisis probe escalated by Joyce
A more powerful and thorough investigation into Australia's embattled dairy industry, with a focus on Murray Goulburn, has been established to get to the bottom of the "fiasco", Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce says.
'Underwhelming' budget piles on the injustice, says Pallas
The 'state the nation forgot' has been handed an unjustly small slice of the infrastructure pie in the federal budget, Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas says.
Tatts loses $540m pokies windfall
Tatts Group will be forced to hand back $540 million in lost pokies compensation to the Victorian government after the High Court sensationally dismissed its rights to keep the windfall in a move likely to derail its plans to issue a special dividend to investors.