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Public service audit reveals $20.8b spent on external contractors and consultants in 2021-22

An audit of the Australian Public Service workforce has found that $20.8 billion was spent hiring tens of thousands of external contractors and consultants in the 2021-22 financial year, most of which saw the Liberal-National Coalition in power.

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Morrison & Co spent a staggering $21b on contractors to support understaffed public service

Morrison & Co spent a staggering $21b on contractors rather than spend less to support an understaffed public service

The New Daily

Morrison government spent $20.8bn on consultants and outsourcing public service in final year, audit finds

The equivalent of 54,000 full-time staff were employed by the federal government in 2021-22, or 37% of the actual workforce

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ParentsNext has finally been axed but it remains to be seen if other punitive programs will be abolished

Its abolition was long overdue and the Albanese government is to be commended for heeding the calls of experts and advocates

The Guardian - AU

Treasurer Jim Chalmers insists nation's most vulnerable will be supported in federal budget

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he has not forgotten the nation's most needy as he prepares to hand down next week's budget which is expected to have a strong focus on cost of living support.

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Federal government to scrap 'polarising' ParentsNext welfare scheme in next week's budget

A series of parliamentary inquiries found the mutual obligations element of the program to be punitive and "akin to coercive control".

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Labor to scrap Coalition’s ‘punitive’ ParentsNext scheme from next year

Albanese government says mutual obligations under the widely criticised program will end immediately

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Controversial ParentsNext program to be scrapped next year

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Presented with a JobSeeker finding too clear to ignore, he changed the subject: how Jim Chalmers is shaping the budget

What was Treasurer Jim Chalmers thinking?

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Albanese government poised to increase jobseeker for people over 55

The $50 daily rate will rise at first only for people over 55 as ministers target cost of living relief at women and long-term unemployed

The Guardian - AU

Long-term investment for industry flagged for budget

Industry Minister Ed Husic says the government will look to target investment in sectors that need help to ensure Australia is able to meet future challenges.

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Iconic institution gets extra funding to maintain Aussie kids' 'rite of passage'

Funding will go towards critical upgrades.

The Canberra Times

Australian government to buy Canberra-based radar company for nearly $500m

Commonwealth will take control of CEA Technologies saying the company’s phased array radar capabilities are a critical sovereign capability

The Guardian - AU

Katy Gallagher ‘unchanged’ on stage-three tax cuts, won’t commit to raising jobseeker

Leaving welfare payments at current rate ‘unconscionable and grossly irresponsible’, says anti-poverty body

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Labor considering single-parenting payment, rent assistance changes in budget

The finance minister says the government is looking seriously at a recommendation to expand the single-parenting payment to more mothers, acknowledging it is "hard" to live on the current JobSeeker rate.

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Labor 'deadly serious' about women's economic equality

The finance minister says the federal government will do as much as it can to address women's economic disadvantage and support vulnerable Australians.

The Guardian - AU

Barry Humphries’ family discussing state funeral; young carers to get study funding boost – as it happened

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New acting chair named for Australian Rail Track Corporation

The new acting chair led the recent Inland Rail review.

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The Guardian - AU

Albanese government urged to increase rent assistance and childcare workers’ pay in budget

Labor downplays delivering on women’s taskforce wishlist all at once but promises to ‘build upon’ investments in future budgets

The Guardian - AU

From stage-three tax cuts to welfare relief: what’s on Australia’s 2023 budget wishlist?

Jim Chalmers is under pressure to deliver for those doing it tough – but inflation and national debt pose serious obstacles

The Guardian - AU

Hopes rise for single parent payment increase as Labor aims to ‘support the most vulnerable’ in budget

Finance minister Katy Gallagher says government working through reports that recommend eligibility changes to payment

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Inland Rail project build blows out to $31.4 billion

An independent review into the Inland Rail project has revealed it faces serious problems, but the Albanese government is pushing ahead.

The Guardian - AU

‘Astonishing’: cost of Inland Rail doubles to $30bn as review savages Coalition over project

Dr Kerry Schott warns she is not confident her assessment captures the full extent of cost blowouts and delays

AAP

Single parents, women flagged for more budget support

The federal government is targeting budget support measures at specific groups as it looks to balance competing priorities.

ABC News

Australia's national institutions to receive $535 million in federal budget funding to reverse 'damage and decay'

The federal government announces it will allocate $535.5 million over the next four years to Australia's nine National Collecting Institutions, which have long been vocal about funding neglect.

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