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In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the Commonwealth ombudsman says government departments still need to ‘unlearn’ the culture that produced robodebt.

As Barnaby Joyce announces he will run for One Nation, Liberals are preparing for further defections to the far-right party.

Two thirds of PNG women experience domestic violence. Cambodia–Thailand clashes kill 14. China trade soars despite tariffs.

Calls grow for the resignation of  UTS vice-chancellor Andrew Parfitt, who knew of the KPMG-produced list targeting ‘underperforming’ staff even as his office denied it existed.

Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements.

More than seven years ago, a Victorian doctor embarked on what has become a quest to correct a small administrative quirk that has made the state’s death certificates unreliable.

This week the Victorian government passed youth crime laws that will see children face adult courts and sentencing – reforms the attorney-general admits are incompatible with the human rights charter.

Restructures across all levels of arts funding have deprived institutions of money and led some to scale back their ambitions or even close.

ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.