Federal Labor has announced it will maintain funding to private schools until at least 2014, while the Coalition has announced a plan to increase workforce participation by people over 50.
Through the campaign so far and during the debate, neither Tony Abbott nor Julia Gillard is showing the type of leadership required to inspire voters at the upcoming poll.
The voice of reason or a cry of anguish?The Note has always reckoned credibility was in the ear of the beholder – which makes the political arena a very tough place indeed.Take ‘prhyminste
Albany-BASED training provider Skill Hire has become the country’s largest employer of bricklaying apprentices, with 130 bricklaying apprentices on its books.
WA's peak business body has criticised Labor's climate change policy which features greener standards for coal-fired power stations and the establishment of a citizen's assembly to discuss the issue.
Defence Minister John Faulkner has become the second senior minister in the Australian government to annouce plans to step down from his current role after the upcoming federal election.
Forrest steps up pressure on Gillard Fortescue Metals CEO Andrew Forrest has stepped up pressure on Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the resource super profit tax by releasing details of a comp
Fortescue Metals CEO Andrew Forrest has stepped up pressure on Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the resource super profits tax by releasing details of a compromise reached with her predecessor.
BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and the industry's peak body have all agreed to suspend their advertising campaigns against the super profits tax after new Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she'd "open the door" to miners.
Gillard drops the ballRadio humorists Roy and HG might reckon too much sport is never enough, but The Note reckons an even wiser person said sport and politics don’t mix.Someone should have remi
WA industry leaders Richard Goyder, Sam Walsh and Andrew Forrest lined up today to criticise deputy prime minister Julia Gillard and the federal government's tax and economic policies.
A federal government funding initiative whereby $350,000 will be used for two new research projects to boost the nation's engineering workforce has been welcomed by the nation's peak body for the engineering profession.
