Accusations that new traffic signals are an attempt to dominate a small community.
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Queenslanders see red over Woolworths tactics in Far North
The small community of Mossman is fighting back hard against the big retailer’s attempt to redefine their town’s streetscape by dictating what kind of infrastructure gets built.
Paid parking permits for APS will have tickets locked to cars and zones
A bid to extract $73 million a year from public servants driving to work carries a raft of restrictions that prevent spot sharing and penalise car-pooling using different vehicles.
Queensland takes American advice on natural disasters
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has flown to the United States to see first hand how a collaboration between the Queensland University of Technology and the California Institute of Technology can help mitigate and better manage natural disasters.
Rail lobby urges Port of Melbourne sale to be reinvested into rail
Australia’s peak rail body has insisted that the Victorian government reinvests the planned sale of the Port of Melbourne into other vital transport infrastructure across the state to boost economic activity.
Federal Attorney General validates private sector ID checks
Electronic efficiency flicks the switch for national verification-as-a-service.
CPSU bargaining claims target redundancy payouts and 15.4 per cent super
The public service union is digging in for drawn out battle over entitlements after the government opened bidding with the offer of a wage freeze.
Public sector ICT falling behind, AIIA tells Canberra
Government called on to lead by example to get operational savings of up to eight per cent.
Dangerous Victorian power lines to be buried to prevent bushfires
An ambitious long term project to place Victoria’s high voltage powerlines underground is digging in to prevent a repeat of the devastating ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires of 2009.
Canberra to build solar hub to boost renewable energy
The nation’s capital is planning to build a new “innovation precinct” to attract research and development into solar power with the goal of making Canberra a “leading city” in renewable energy.