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| UpdatedIn a scene straight out of Hogwarts, South Australia's Lower House transforms into a Chamber of Secrets, with a Labor MP repeatedly refusing to say the name of a new colleague and political rival.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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The State Government assures doctors the next stage of a $550 million upgrade to Nepean Hospital in Sydney's west will begin within two years.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, hornsby-2077, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian Opposition says the Human Services Minister "lied to the public" after she was forced to correct the record about her knowledge of a Right to Information request.
Topics: state-parliament, welfare, government-and-politics, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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| UpdatedThe retirement of LNP stalwart and former deputy premier Jeff Seeney makes it harder for the party to ward off One Nation in the central Queensland seat of Callide, political analysts say.
Topics: liberal-national-party-queensland, political-parties, government-and-politics, electoral-system, state-parliament, parliament, one-nation, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedJeff Seeney is retiring from politics at the next Queensland election after a 18-year career, which saw him rise to opposition leader and deputy premier.
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, liberal-national-party-queensland, callide-4715, qld, brisbane-4000, australia
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| UpdatedTasmania's Premier issues a please explain to the head of the Education Department after parenting author and educator Steve Biddulph is gagged from speaking out against the State Government's education changes.
Topics: state-parliament, education, community-and-society, hobart-7000, devonport-7310, launceston-7250
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Energy Minister Mark Bailey says he will reactivate a private email account he controversially closed after revelations it was used for official business, and while the Opposition has referred him to the corruption watchdog, he says LNP MPs are doing the same.
Topics: state-parliament, computers-and-technology, internet-culture, brisbane-4000
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The Queensland Liberal National Party is to hold an unprecedented meeting of its state and federal MPs this weekend to discuss ways of countering a resurgent One Nation.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, state-parliament, liberal-national-party-queensland, one-nation, qld
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Sugar entities Wilmar and Queensland Sugar Limited will not be forced into arbitration after the LNP fails to pass laws in State Parliament to mandate the move.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, mackay-4740
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| UpdatedEnergy and Water Supply Minister Mark Bailey is referred to Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission over a private email account that has the Opposition questioning if he acted corruptly.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, public-sector, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA blame game erupts over who is at fault over the $4.4 billion project to deliver and maintain Queensland Rail's new trains, which have been found to have a plethora of design faults.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, state-parliament, rail-transport, brisbane-4000, qld, southport-4215, ipswich-4305
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| UpdatedThe Newman government slashed oversight of the controversial coal seam gas industry in Queensland despite warnings it would lead to serious non-compliance and to CSG companies "gambling" with safety, cabinet documents show.
Topics: state-parliament, greenhouse-gas, government-and-politics, climate-change, environment, pollution, chinchilla-4413, qld
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| UpdatedWith 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 Queensland Opposition has vowed to force the major players in the state's sugar marketing dispute into arbitration, following stalled negotiations.
Topics: rural, government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, agribusiness, agricultural-marketing, agricultural-crops, state-parliament, sugar, mackay-4740
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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