States and Territories

• WA election: It's the economy, stupid — or is it One Nation? Analysis

  By Andrew O'Connor

  Posted February 18, 2017 16:12:54

  The Liberals and Labor spent much of the week crunching and debating the financial figures — but it was that One Nation preference deal and Pauline Hanson's candidates who dominated much of the debate.

  Topics: elections, states-and-territories, alp, liberals, one-nation, perth-6000, wa

• Teens who 'blackmailed' men on gay dating apps denied bail

  By Elizabeth Byrne

  Posted February 17, 2017 19:19:17

  Four Canberra youths — including two teenage brothers — who are accused of running a blackmail scam targeting gay men on dating apps are denied bail.

  Topics: gays-and-lesbians, states-and-territories, community-and-society, crime, canberra-2600, act

• Hanson and Dickson asked to leave shopping centre during press conference

  Posted February 17, 2017 16:12:12 | Updated February 17, 2017 19:19:17

  One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and new Queensland recruit Steve Dickson are interrupted during a media conference at a Sunshine Coast shopping centre and told to leave the "private property".

  Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, one-nation, liberal-national-party-queensland, pauline-hanson, nambour-4560

• Investigation into contamination near Linc Energy plant widens

  By the National Reporting Team's Mark Willacy

  Posted February 17, 2017 13:39:25 | Updated February 17, 2017 13:58:21

  The Queensland Government declares an expanded "investigation zone" after the discovery of flammable levels of hydrogen in soil on the western Darling Downs.

  Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, environment, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, qld

• 'I couldn't get into the building': People with disabilities facing barriers to work

  By Lauren Waldhuter

  Posted February 17, 2017 06:56:30 | Updated February 17, 2017 11:43:10

  People with disabilities, including Adelaide man Nick Schumi, say it is hard to land a job when you head to an interview only to find the building cannot accommodate your wheelchair.

  Topics: disabilities, activism-and-lobbying, states-and-territories, work, community-and-society, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa

• ACT Government 'wilfully hid glitch' that may have jailed people illegally

  By Elizabeth Byrne

  Posted February 17, 2017 06:17:17

  Canberra lawyers launch a scathing attack on the ACT Government accusing it of "wilfully" hiding the fact several people may have been sent to jail illegally, because of a glitch.

  Topics: states-and-territories, canberra-2600, act

• SA Labor clears way for Malinauskas to switch to Lower House

  By political reporter Leah MacLennan

  Posted February 16, 2017 19:33:27

  Labor clears the path for Peter Malinauskas, seen by some as a potential future ALP leader, to switch houses at the next South Australian election, which is just over a year away.

  Topics: states-and-territories, alp, political-parties, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa

• 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

• Three of the world's most interesting bus systems

  Posted February 16, 2017 16:35:50 | Updated February 16, 2017 16:53:19

  In light of the Victorian Government's move to overhaul Melbourne's bus network, we take a look at some of the innovative systems other cities have in place and what Melbourne could learn from them.

  Topics: states-and-territories, parliament, government-and-politics, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, melbourne-3000, vic

• New agency to improve safety after Indigenous death in custody

  Posted February 16, 2017 15:59:18 | Updated February 16, 2017 16:12:25

  The ACT Government announces plans to install an oversight agency in Canberra's jail, acknowledging it "must do more" to improve the care of prisoners after the death of inmate Steven Freeman.

  Topics: states-and-territories, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, black-deaths-in-custody, canberra-2600, act

• Policymakers must restore confidence after SA blackouts

  By Michael Coggan

  Posted February 16, 2017 13:50:12 | Updated February 16, 2017 13:57:28

  The installation of a new gas-fired generator and the establishment of a solar thermal power plant are the most likely short-term solutions to electricity shortages in South Australia, the director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute says.

  Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, federal-government, adelaide-5000, sa

• SA prison lockdown ends

  Posted February 16, 2017 11:29:55 | Updated February 16, 2017 12:29:09

  A lockdown of South Australian prisons ends as the union representing prison staff and the State Government head to the Industrial Relations Commission.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321, sa

• 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

• No guarantees major blackouts won't happen again: regulator

  ABC Adelaide

  Posted February 16, 2017 09:06:45 | Updated February 16, 2017 10:22:33

  The Australian Energy Market Operator says it can't give a guarantee that it will not order load shedding, of the kind that left 90,000 properties without power during a recent heatwave in South Australia, again.

  Topics: government-and-politics, electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa, vic

• Innovative bus services promised for Melbourne in 'modern overhaul'

  Posted February 16, 2017 08:45:08 | Updated February 16, 2017 16:54:30

  Decades-old bus contracts are holding back the ability to run more services in Melbourne and revamp the declining network, so the system will be overhauled, the Victorian Government says.

  Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000, vic

• 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

• Kim Beazley says One Nation is a threat to national security

  Lateline

  Posted February 15, 2017 19:53:26 | Updated February 15, 2017 23:50:32

  The former Labor leader and ambassador to the US says Pauline Hanson's One Nation is a threat to Australia's national security and prosperity.

  Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, one-nation, world-politics, australia, wa

• Load shedding in SA heatwave three times amount ordered

  By political reporter Nick Harmsen

  Posted February 15, 2017 17:09:38 | Updated February 16, 2017 01:23:20

  Electricity load shedding in South Australia last week, which affected 90,000 customers, was three times the level ordered by the Australian Energy Market Operator, a report into the blackouts finds.

  Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, sa, adelaide-5000

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

  7.30

  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

• Overcrowding worries prompts SA prisons lockdown

  By Lauren Waldhuter

  Posted February 15, 2017 15:59:44 | Updated February 15, 2017 19:16:10

  A union places inmates in all South Australian prisons in lockdown over what it says is a failing by the Corrections Department to address overcrowding concerns.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, sa, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321

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

  7.30

  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

• Victorian firefighters win allowances boost as pay dispute drags on

  Posted February 15, 2017 11:34:34 | Updated February 15, 2017 12:40:52

  Victoria's career CFA firefighters will receive a $3,000 bonus and a boost to their allowances as a stopgap measure while a bitter pay dispute drags into a fourth year.

  Topics: bushfire, states-and-territories, federal-government, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, vic

• Canberra Labor MLA blasts RSL over tiles in toilets showing Aboriginal men

  By James Fettes

  Posted February 14, 2017 19:35:15 | Updated February 15, 2017 06:49:00

  A RSL club faces an extraordinary attack from Bec Cody over toilet wall tiles which depict Indigenous men — criticism the club says is "ridiculous" and "out of order".

  Topics: states-and-territories, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, canberra-2600, act, jervis-bay-2540, nsw, bega-2550

• Jacqui Lambie may field party candidates at 2018 Tasmanian election

  By Rhiannon Shine

  Posted February 14, 2017 15:14:11 | Updated February 14, 2017 15:20:05

  Independent senator Jacqui Lambie says she is considering fielding candidates for her own political party at the next Tasmanian election if nothing is done to fix the state's health system.

  Topics: government-and-politics, immigration, refugees, states-and-territories, health-policy, elections, tas

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