Testing our defences: is hotel quarantine the nation’s Achilles heel?
Howard Springs is the gold standard, but it’s hard to replicate inside hotels. Is there a better way to gradually open up to the world?
- by Deborah Snow
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Native title financial structures under scrutiny
The Adnyamathanha people question what there is to show for millions of dollars of mining royalties, as investigators probe the tangled finances of their native title body.
- by Adele Ferguson, Deborah Snow and Chris Gillett
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‘Where did the money go?’: How native title failed a community
When the Adnyamathanha people of South Australia struck deals with a uranium miner over their traditional lands, hopes of significant community benefits were high. Instead, there has been division and questions over where the money has gone.
- by Deborah Snow, Adele Ferguson and Chris Gillett
Aged care providers call for urgent plan to vaccinate workers
Only 10 per cent of the aged care workforce have been vaccinated, though they are meant to be in the highest priority group.
- by Harriet Alexander and Deborah Snow
‘Indefensible’: Toll refunds for M5 South West dwarf all other motorway relief
NSW taxpayers forked out almost $120 million last year to refund tolls on a motorway in Sydney’s southwest, almost double that of a decade ago.
- by Matt O'Sullivan and Deborah Snow
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Taxpayers would be hit if Sydney toll regimes change: Constance
Political pressure is mounting on the government and Transport Minister Andrew Constance over stark discrepancies in tolls across Sydney’s motorways and higher-than-inflation increases on some.
- by Matt O'Sullivan and Deborah Snow
Abrupt resignations rattle Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation
The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation is at the centre of fresh controversy over its planned divestment of a key Aboriginal hub in Redfern.
- by Adele Ferguson and Deborah Snow
WestConnex: the toll road that ate Sydney
The hydra-headed 33-kilometre network of mostly tunnels that burrows towards the city from the south and west has been a signature project of the Coalition’s decade in power.
- by Deborah Snow and Matt O'Sullivan
Jodi McKay: ‘My position is more secure than any other leader, ever’
The NSW Opposition Leader came back from political exile to lead her party but the pandemic threw up challenges she never expected.
- by Deborah Snow
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‘Failing the people’: Calls for royal commission into ‘broken’ system
Some senior Indigenous leaders want a wide-ranging royal commission into Indigenous corporations and statutory bodies.
- by Adele Ferguson and Deborah Snow
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Glistening beaches and luxury resort belie ‘systemic’ issues at Indigenous bodies
Marrying corporate governance with investment in Indigenous community enterprises is proving a challenge for Indigenous leaders and regulators alike as some call for a royal commission.
- by Deborah Snow and Adele Ferguson