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• Who's next? WA election casualties mount (photos)

  By Laura Gartry

  Posted February 17, 2017 18:18:30 | Updated February 17, 2017 19:26:00

  Political casualties during the WA election campaign mount as social media posts and inappropriate behaviour continue to land candidates in hot water.

  Topics: state-parliament, elections, social-media, perth-6000

• Pauline Hanson will run 'strong campaign' in Nicklin: departing MP

  By Bruce Atkinson and Chris O'Brien

  Posted February 17, 2017 10:52:10 | Updated February 17, 2017 14:55:01

  The Sunshine Coast electorate of Nicklin could be anyone's for the taking at the next state election, according to departing independent MP Peter Wellington, who says his voters will respond best to candidates on personal level.

  Topics: state-parliament, parliament, nambour-4560, qld, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558

• Peter Wellington will not run in next Queensland election

  By Bruce Atkinson

  Posted February 16, 2017 19:07:30 | Updated February 16, 2017 22:08:54

  Sunshine Coast independent MP and the Speaker of the Queensland Parliament Peter Wellington drops a political bombshell by announcing he will not run in his seat of Nicklin at the next state election.

  Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, people, states-and-territories, brisbane-4000, nambour-4560

• Fears Murray Goulburn cost cuts will hit factories

  ABC Rural

  By Bridget Fitzgerald

  Posted February 16, 2017 14:23:55

  The Victorian National Party is concerned Murray Goulburn cost saving measures could see processing facilities downgraded or closed.

  Topics: dairy-production, state-parliament, leongatha-3953

• SA Unions president to stand for Legislative Council preselection

  By Nick Harmsen

  Posted February 16, 2017 10:13:41 | Updated February 16, 2017 10:32:20

  The South Australian Labor Party is set for more infighting over preselections, with a group of left-wing industrial unions backing their own candidate for a vacancy in the Upper House.

  Topics: political-parties, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000

• NSW greyhound industry to pay for its own watchdog

  By state political reporter Sarah Gerathy

  Posted February 16, 2017 07:33:24 | Updated February 16, 2017 13:13:10

  The greyhound racing industry in New South Wales will be made to pay for a tough new integrity commission, under a new plan to stamp out animal cruelty in the sport.

  Topics: racing, gambling, animal-welfare, state-parliament, nsw

• Murderers must tell where victims are before seeking parole

  By Leonie Mellor, David Chen and staff

  Posted February 16, 2017 06:49:37 | Updated February 16, 2017 16:16:49

  New 'no body, no parole' legislation means prisoners convicted of murder or manslaughter will need to identify the location of their victim's body before being eligible for early release under sweeping changes announced to the Queensland parole system.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, state-parliament, public-sector, laws, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, qld, australia

• Liberals eye more private sector prisons, hospitals to cut WA debt

  By Andrew O'Connor

  Posted February 15, 2017 21:50:30 | Updated February 15, 2017 22:06:46

  A re-elected Barnett Government would take a hard line on reforming the public sector and launch a push towards privatising more services to help restore the budget to surplus, the WA Treasurer reveals.

  Topics: elections, states-and-territories, state-parliament, perth-6000, wa

• Glenn Stevens hired to advise NSW Government on housing affordability

  By state political reporter Sarah Gerathy

  Posted February 15, 2017 18:23:41 | Updated February 15, 2017 18:49:37

  A stoush about housing affordability erupts in Parliament after the Premier announces she has hired former Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens to advise her Government on the issue.

  Topics: state-parliament, housing, nsw

• 'If you don't like it, don't stand': Hanson to One Nation candidates

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  By Andrew Probyn

  Posted February 15, 2017 16:36:57 | Updated February 15, 2017 19:55:28

  Pauline Hanson strikes back at One Nation's WA candidates who are complaining about a controversial preference deal with the Liberal Party, telling them if they're not happy with it, "don't stand under my name".

  Topics: government-and-politics, elections, state-parliament, one-nation, states-and-territories, wa

• 'Kicked in the fangs': One Nation candidates furious over Liberal preference deal

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  By Claire Moodie

  Posted February 15, 2017 13:31:04 | Updated February 15, 2017 17:19:00

  One Nation candidates in the WA election are threatening to disobey their own party on the controversial preference deal struck with the Liberal Party.

  Topics: government-and-politics, elections, state-parliament, one-nation, states-and-territories, bullying, wa

• Dumped ministerJillian Skinner 'missing in action' as Parliament resumes

  By state political reporter Brigid Glanville

  Posted February 15, 2017 12:38:17 | Updated February 15, 2017 12:52:21

  Retired Government MP Jillian Skinner is thought to be missing in action by colleagues after failing to turn up to New South Wales Parliament today.

  Topics: state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, liberals, political-parties, north-sydney-2060

• Offensive Wicked Campers vehicles face de-registration on Queensland roads

  By Gail Burke and Kristian Silva

  Posted February 15, 2017 06:50:37 | Updated February 15, 2017 11:00:35

  Sexist, obscene and other offensive slogans on vans and vehicles, found on holiday hire vehicles such as controversial Wicked Campers, are being made illegal in Queensland.

  Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, brisbane-4000, qld

• 'Ethically disgusting': Gambling counsellor slams Tasmanian Government for pokies profit

  The World Today

  By Felicity Ogilvie

  Posted February 14, 2017 15:46:32 | Updated February 14, 2017 17:35:11

  It is "ethically disgusting" the Tasmanian Government is profiting from the gaming industry while people's lives are being ruined, a gambling counsellor tells a parliamentary inquiry.

  Topics: gambling, state-parliament, tas

• Gosford Labor MP Kathy Smith resigns triggering by-election

  ABC Central Coast

  By Mary-Louise Vince

  Posted February 14, 2017 15:21:21 | Updated February 14, 2017 15:31:36

  New South Wales Central Coast MP Kathy Smith resigns to fight her cancer battle.

  Topics: state-parliament, cancer, gosford-2250

• City fights on as country celebrates merger victory

  By Lucy McNally and Gavin Coote

  Posted February 14, 2017 14:54:13 | Updated February 14, 2017 16:11:34

  City councils will battle on with their fight against council amalgamations, while regional centres celebrate, after the NSW Government's announcement of a split policy on forced council mergers.

  Topics: state-parliament, local-government, nsw, uralla-2358, walcha-2354, bathurst-2795, oberon-2787, burwood-2134, blayney-2799, orange-2800, canada-bay-2046, strathfield-2135, dungog-2420, maitland-2320, hornsby-2077, mount-kuring-gai-2080, hunters-hill-2110, lane-cove-2066, ryde-2112, mosman-2088, north-sydney-2060, willoughby-2068, newcastle-2300, randwick-2031, shellharbour-2529, waverley-2024, wollongong-2500

• Victoria rejects call for forced drug treatment for vulnerable children

  By the National Reporting Team's Dan Oakes and Sam Clark

  Posted February 14, 2017 12:34:17 | Updated February 14, 2017 13:43:47

  The Victorian Government rejected a report it commissioned which recommended the introduction of compulsory mental health and drug treatment for vulnerable children in the strife-torn child protection and youth justice systems.

  Topics: youth, drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-use, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, vic, melbourne-3000

• NSW to push ahead with city council amalgamations

  By Sarah Gerathy

  Posted February 14, 2017 10:56:49 | Updated February 14, 2017 15:56:12

  The NSW Government will push ahead with forced council amalgamations in the city, but will walk away from regional council mergers that are currently in court.

  Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, local-government, nsw, uralla-2358, walcha-2354, bathurst-2795, oberon-2787, burwood-2134, blayney-2799, orange-2800, canada-bay-2046, strathfield-2135, dungog-2420, maitland-2320, hornsby-2077, mount-kuring-gai-2080, hunters-hill-2110, lane-cove-2066, ryde-2112, mosman-2088, north-sydney-2060, willoughby-2068, newcastle-2300, randwick-2031, shellharbour-2529, waverley-2024, wollongong-2500

• Capsicum spray used on teens inside Victorian adult prison, court hears

  By James Hancock

  Posted February 13, 2017 17:33:09

  Capsicum spray has been deployed on "multiple occasions" in the past fortnight against teenagers being held inside Victoria's Barwon Prison, the Supreme Court is told.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, community-and-society, state-parliament, melbourne-3000, lara-3212

• Taxis in central Melbourne following protest image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 13, 2017 10:55:34

  Topics: state-parliament, melbourne-3000

• Taxi driver holding up a sign at Vic Parliament protest image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 13, 2017 10:24:52 | Updated February 13, 2017 10:46:53

  Topics: state-parliament, parliament-house-3002

• 'Remember who your friends are': Nats lash out over One Nation deal

  By political reporter Stephen Dziedzic

  Posted February 13, 2017 10:07:40 | Updated February 13, 2017 12:17:48

  Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and a string of federal Nationals MPs are criticising the West Australian Liberals preference deal with One Nation — warning the agreement could cost them power in the state election.

  Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, state-parliament, canberra-2600, act, australia

• National park in Victoria's east 'could create new jobs'

  By James Hancock

  Posted February 12, 2017 10:08:52

  Hundreds of timber industry job losses could be offset with $45 million in government and private investment into a new national park in eastern Victoria, The Wilderness Society says.

  Topics: environment, environmental-impact, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, kinglake-3763, healesville-3777, marysville-3779, heyfield-3858

• Stock route opinions mixed under Queensland Government scrutiny

  ABC Rural

  By Eric Barker and Andrea Crothers

  Posted February 10, 2017 11:43:55 | Updated February 10, 2017 11:53:58

  A series of state parliamentary committee hearings have uncovered contrasting opinions about how Queensland's stock route network should be managed.

  Topics: beef-cattle, local-government, state-parliament, land-management, boulia-4829, longreach-4730, roma-4455, emerald-4720

• Budget blowout tipped as Queensland hospital spending comes under fire

  By Lexy Hamilton-Smith

  Posted February 09, 2017 20:59:16

  Queensland's public hospitals are wasting millions of dollars of taxpayer money by not being cost efficient when it comes to buying high-end medical equipment, an auditor-general's report finds.

  Topics: healthcare-facilities, parliament, state-parliament, government-and-politics, health, qld

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