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Treasurer Daniel Mookhey’s first Budget delivers a $4 billion improvement over four years; says he inherited a ‘decade of damage’.

Health minister Mark Butler has announced the three strains of focus for looming Medicare reforms, which include updating old technology.

If either Labor or the Coalition form government in NSW on Saturday, both have promised to cut back on executive mandarins.

The recessions some of us grew up with in the early 1980s and 1990s were “business cycle” recessions. In 2020 we face a different sort of shock.

If thinking about the exciting world of fleet management doesn’t curl your toes, maybe a million dollars for the whole state will. That’s how much

The Northern Territory government is moving into belt-tightening mode, calling in agency heads to justify the programs they run and spend no more than they are given this coming year, while promising “savage cuts” will not occur.

The Western Australian government has reconsidered some of its cost-cutting measures in the education portfolio in response to a passionate outcry, and been applauded for doing

This week’s ACT Budget lists a range of efforts to save money in the public service, from property management to procurement reform and general efficiency improvements. It also laments the local economic impact of the federal government’s efforts to do the same.

The Senate’s clerk Rosemary Laing is too modest. A 40% drop in her department’s workers’ compensation premium is down to an “excellent performance” and not crazy bargains from Comcare.