
Retain national cabinet post-pandemic: ex-Premier
The national cabinet model is a “fantastic innovation” and should be extended beyond the coronavirus pandemic, former Premier Jay Weatherill says.
The national cabinet model is a “fantastic innovation” and should be extended beyond the coronavirus pandemic, former Premier Jay Weatherill says.
Work will proceed on the Turnbull Government’s national energy guarantee despite fierce opposition from South Australia at a meeting of COAG’s Energy Council today.
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The State Government will introduce new laws that would deny bail opportunities, and instil a presumption against parole, for prisoners with links to terrorist organisations.
UPDATED: State and territory energy ministers have signed off on an independent review of the nation’s energy security following a statewide blackout in South Australia.
SA Premier Jay Weatherill says Western Australia has always been “intellectually dishonest” about the GST, dismissing Malcolm Turnbull’s push for a change in the way it is distributed as a distraction from health funding cuts and soaring power prices.
UPDATED: Premier Jay Weatherill says the $2.9 billion deal on hospitals struck at COAG this afternoon would compensate the state for less than a fifth of the size of the cuts in Joe Hockey’s first budget.