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Last modified on Thu 15 Apr 2021 17.40 EDT Scott Morrison has again been urged by members of his own government to give a budget boost to the auditor general, despite the prime minister brushing off a similar request last year. The joint committee of public accounts and audit, which is chaired by the Liberal MP Lucy Wicks and has a majority of Coalition members, has called for funding to reach a target of 48 performance audits a year and an extra $6-7m to test government entities’ claims a...

analysis Christine Holgate gets her own bully pulpit – and uses it to effect on Morrisons weak spot ThuThursday 15 updated Yesterday at 9:47pm ThuThursday 15 AprApril 2021 at 9:47pm Theres an interesting contrast in how Morrison is currently dealing with Brittany Higgins and Christine Holgate. ( Share Print text only Cancel Queensland Nationals Senator Matt Canavan, juggling a couple of committee engagements, hadnt planned to attend Tuesdays hearing at which former Australia Post CEO Chris...

Chief Health Officer Paul Kelly said US company Pfizer is working on adapting the vaccine to protect better against the UK, South African and Brazilian strains

Scott Morrison is being roasted by opponents after dropping the aim to offer all Australians a Covid jab by October. The prime minister announced on his Facebook page on Sunday that he was scrapping the target because there are many uncertainties involved. It comes after scientists recommended under 50s do not take the AstraZeneca vaccine due to a minuscule risk of blood clots, prompting the government to order 20million more doses of Pfizer which will not arrive until October at the earliest. ...

Morrison government guilty of absolute failure in electric vehicles policy Royce Kurmelovs © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP Independent senator Rex Patrick has taken a swipe at the federal government for its “absolute failure” on electric vehicles and says the prime minister, Scott Morrison, has broken a promise to make progress on their adoption. © Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP Prime minister Scott Morrison in a non-electric vehicle. Independ...

Share on Twitter Over the past three years, increased global attention has been drawn to China’s crackdown on more than a million members of its Uighur-Muslim minority in Xinjiang. China has long faced accusations that it operates detention centres masked as “vocational training” camps, where Muslims are held against their will indefinitely and subjected to torture and abuse. Activists, human rights organisations and even governments - including the United States administratio...

Bureaucrat urged to resign after $13m mistake in Australian government water buyback Anne Davies © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP The independent senator Rex Patrick has called for the resignation of the bureaucrat in charge of the federal government’s $250m program of water buybacks after it was revealed the department of agriculture may have misinterpreted a valuation and paid $13m too much for one purchase. © Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP Rex Patri...

Advertisement The Morrison government is weighing up whether to revive divisive measures to reform workplace laws, including criminal sanctions against wage theft, after it abandoned most of its original bill in the face of a Senate defeat. In almost 10 months of negotiations, the government, led by now-absent Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter, failed to win agreement between unions, business groups and crucially, the Senate crossbench, for its changes. Acting Industrial Relations ...

Delays in the family law system are wreaking havoc on young children, mothers and fathers, a federal parliamentary inquiry has warned as it calls for more funding and more specialist registrars. We need the Morrison government to stop the words and start acting, committee member and Labor MP Graham Perrett told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday. The government today could appoint registrars, the government today could increase legal aid funding. The parliamentary committee has handed down an int...

Industry groups push for a swift vote on the IR omnibus bill Senator Pauline Hanson. Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch. Leading industry groups are urging senate crossbenchers to support the IR omnibus bill to ensure parliament can pass the suite of reforms before the week’s end. Chief executives from the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Australian Industry Group, the Business Council of Australia and seven peak associations across the retail, hospitality, construction, mining and ...