Category: Health & Social Services

CPSU ratchets-up pressure on preservation of payouts

State Budget away, NSW Finance Minister, Dominic Perrottet, says he wants public servants to come up with innovative ideas to traverse traditional boundaries and put data to work for the public good.

Local governments across Australia have issued an overwhelming public rejection of federal Budget funding freezes likely to prompt rates hikes hit pensioners.

Digital services from agencies like Medicare and Tax return to bricks-and-mortar.

Despite the allocation of another year of funding, neither the Abbott government nor health bureaucrats are yet prepared to commit to an official date for when big changes will happen.

The Commonwealth’s biggest agency has come under fire from the CPSU.

The South Australian Local Government Association has warned that council revenue could be hit by Federal Budget cuts to state concessions, with a flow on to reduction to pensioner discounts on council rates.

The government’s review of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record has not only recommended that a new Commission be set up to run the scheme but that electronic records become the default.

Tough, roll-your-own brands like White Ox once used to enable smokers to display their social status inside and outside the law. Now one of the key rituals used to help punctuate the time spent behind bars is being butted out – at least in Queensland.

New NSW Premier Mike Baird has moved quickly to rearrange his front bench by protecting good performers.