NSW’s workplace health and safety regulator has been referred to the anti-corruption watchdog over “significant flaws” in the procurement of inaccurate monitoring devices meant to detect toxic silica particles which were meant to protect workers using engineered stone. In a scathing report handed down by the NSW auditor-general Margaret CrawfordContinue Reading

The Albanese government’s multi-billion contribution to the controversial $200bn Victorian Suburban Rail Loop project could become the subject of further scrutiny after the matter was referred to the auditor-general. Coalition infrastructure and transport spokesman Bridget McKenzie called on the Auditor-General Grant Hehir to investigate the Commonwealth’s $2.2bn spend allocated towardsContinue Reading

Anthony Albanese has slammed Scott Morrison’s “unprecedented and inexcusable actions” in secretly appointing himself to multiple ministries as emblematic of the former government’s culture of secrecy. Releasing a damning report examining Scott Morrison’s secret power grab today prepared by former High Court judge Virginia Bell, he said the report confirmsContinue Reading