Government documents show hundreds of businesses operating in Australia have breached food safety laws, with one politician warning "you could be eating a minced horse".

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Some childcare centres in Australia are so understaffed that children are left alone for hours. Other centres spend less than a dollar a day on feeding them. Yet the industry receives billions in pub...

‘The more I look, the more horrified I am – there’s no end to the things that keep coming through,’ NSW upper house member says * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Every Wednesday about 5,000 pages of documents are sent to the clerk’s office in New South Wales Parliament House and members of Abigail Boyd’s staff scan each one. The documents are being released in tranches by various state government bodies after a legal fight by Boyd, a Greens upper house member and the chair of the NSW education committee. Continue reading...

The NSW Police Force has stopped using a system notorious for its ineffectiveness, especially when it comes to identifying racial minorities.

The former operator of a Sydney childcare centre where children were force-fed until they vomited, strapped in highchairs for hours and had their heads shoved into garbage bins, has been permanently b...

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has flagged plans for a radical overhaul of worker’s compensation for injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

Anthony Albanese has also ruled out restricting negative gearing to help fix the housing crisis because it would signal to voters that Labor is an anti-aspiration.

A parliamentary inquiry has been called into the troubled childcare sector following a landmark ABC investigation into serious safety breaches in the industry.

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Exclusive: Guardian Australia has seen an email from the director of Australia’s largest private mental health provider about the contract

A metropolitan Sydney hospital will struggle to treat patients after more than half of the state’s hospital psychiatrists tendered their resignations.

The fossil fuel industry is fighting back harder than ever against those who would seek to curtail it to protect the climate. Profits are up, political pressure for change is down. Meanwhile, the plan...

A change to the state’s business case policy allows the premier to make investment decisions via “media release″⁣, detractors claim.

Victims reported to include six people escorting aid convoy, and eight in tent encampment in humanitarian zone