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With delivery of 75 new Queensland Rail trains now on hold, what will it mean for commuters who are already suffering from cuts to services from the ongoing driver shortage?
Topics: rail-transport, public-sector, state-parliament, brisbane-4000, helensvale-4212, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government halts the delivery of new trains for Queensland Rail from the manufacturer in India, because of ongoing problems with their operation, with Transport Minister Jackie Trad blaming the former government for placing the order.
Topics: rail-transport, public-sector, state-parliament, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government has announced plans for 100,000 residential lots in 17 new suburbs in Melbourne's growth areas — but will it help address the city's housing affordability problems?
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, state-parliament, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedLaws are hurried through Queensland Parliament to retrospectively uphold more than 11,000 rulings by the state's Mental Health Review Tribunal, after it was revealed a member did not have the proper qualifications.
Topics: mental-health, health, state-parliament, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedEnergy Minister Mark Bailey says he deleted a personal Yahoo email account that had received emails from a union boss because he thought the Premier wanted him to.
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, laws, brisbane-4000, qld
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Benefits for former WA premiers, which included the provision of an office, staff and a government vehicle with a driver, are cut by the Salaries and Allowances Tribunal.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, wa
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Queensland Parliament will urgently debate an Opposition bill aimed at forcing a long-running sugar industry dispute into arbitration, even though the Government has installed a mediator between the two bodies at the centre of the row.
Topics: state-parliament, sugar, judges-and-legal-profession, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, mackay-4740, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810, qld
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government scraps its appeal against a Federal Court ruling that police were racist in their response to riots sparked by the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island in 2004.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, public-sector, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government announces plans to rezone 100,000 housing blocks and create 17 new suburbs in Melbourne's key growth zones in an effort to tackle housing affordability.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, kalkallo-3064, vic, melbourne-3000
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Australian politics has extremely low levels of female participation compared to other developed democracies, but one program is aiming to change this.
Topics: women, government-and-politics, university-and-further-education, local-government, state-parliament, federal-parliament, parliament, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA debate to decriminalise abortion in Queensland is cancelled and the issue postponed until at least the next term of Parliament, after LNP MPs indicated they would not support the proposal.
Topics: abortion, laws, state-parliament, minor-parties, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe LNP says it cannot support an independent MP's bid to decriminalise abortion in Queensland because the proposed laws are flawed and could create "further risk and uncertainty".
Topics: abortion, state-parliament, laws, womens-health, alp, liberal-national-party-queensland, activism-and-lobbying, qld, brisbane-4000
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Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles admits he is "gutted" to lose his seat of Mt Coot-tha in a redistribution that merges it with Indooroopilly and confirms he will instead contest a different seat north of Brisbane.
Topics: elections, state-parliament, alp, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThree health staff are suspended amid an independent review into the treatment of an aged care patient at a mental health facility run by the South Australian Government.
Topics: mental-health, health, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, oakden-5086, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedLabor's Environment Minister Steven Miles plans to relocate to the electorate of Murrumba to contest the next election because of boundary changes that will see his current seat of Mt Coot-tha merge with the LNP-held seat of Indooroopilly.
Topics: elections, alp, liberal-national-party-queensland, state-parliament, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten have swapped insults over penalty rates, with both parties accusing the other of hypocrisy.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedDespite being warned of "potential conflicts of interest", the Queensland Government appointed an Adani company director to chair the authority overseeing the Abbot Point coal port.
Topics: mining-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, coal, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, bowen-4805, weipa-4874, mackay-4740, qld
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A 70-year-old pensioner wants Housing Tasmania to "wake up" and do the right thing by removing a wasp nest outside his bedroom window.
Topics: pests, state-parliament, housing, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedResidents of Victoria's Latrobe Valley are stressed and anxious about the looming closure of the Hazelwood power plant, warning there will be catastrophic consequences for the local economy.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, morwell-3840, vic, australia
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The resignations of the Victorian Speaker and Deputy Speaker over the "appalling" abuse of parliamentary entitlements is the "right decision" and changes will be made to ensure the rules are black and white, Premier Daniel Andrews says.
Topics: parliament, government-and-politics, state-parliament, vic
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Hobart's Lord Mayor supports the Tasmanian Government's plan to take control of water and sewerage infrastructure, despite concerns about the loss of dividends to councils.
Topics: water-management, water-supply, water-pollution, state-parliament, local-government, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, burnie-7320, st-helens-7216
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| UpdatedThe resignations of the Victorian Speaker and Deputy Speaker over the abuse of parliamentary entitlements is the "right decision" and changes will be made to ensure the rules are black and white, Premier Daniel Andrews promises.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, alp, melbourne-3000, parliament-house-3002
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| UpdatedA poll in mid-February predicted the WA election would be a dead heat, but a week later another poll showed a swing towards Labor. So which one is right?
Topics: state-parliament, political-parties, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Victorian Parliament resign over a controversial second residence allowance, with Telmo Languiller saying he should pay for his "error of judgement".
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, ocean-grove-3226, melbourne-3000, parliament-house-3002
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| UpdatedTopics: state-parliament, parliament, ocean-grove-3226