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Albanese government to launch new industrial relations negotiations but all but rules out bringing back bargaining fees for non-union members

Record high spending ‘is putting our democracy at risk’, Centre for Public Integrity chair says

Revelation likely to add to transparency stakeholders calls’ for caps on political donations

Mineralogy was the single biggest political donor last financial year, pouring $116 million into Queensland businessman Clive Palmer's United Australia Party. Both Labor and the Liberals each received more than $100 million in donations.

NSW Labor is promising more money for community sport if elected, saying the sector's funding has been effectively frozen since the Sydney Olympics.

Political parties' and donors' financial returns for 2021/22 have been made public, with Clive Palmer giving his United Australia Party a record $117 million.

Damning report is part of doctors’ push for 50-50 federal and state funding ahead of national cabinet meeting

Rachelle Miller tells inquiry the then human services minister was ‘very firm’ a media storm over the Centrelink debt recovery scheme needed to be shut down

Just months after Australia legislated to establish the long-anticipated National Anti-Corruption Agency, our standing is back on the rise in Transparency International’s annual Global Corruption Perceptions Index. This is a small but important turn-around following a decade of steady decline.