Government Business

Water commission checks low flow and no flow
12:00AM | Christopher Jay | The Australian Financial Review
After seven years of drought, the National Water Commission is looking for ecological consultants to develop specific indicators of how badly an ecology is being hit by low or no water flows.
Canberra Insider
12:00AM | Verona Burgess | The Australian Financial Review
People's forums might be going out of fashion but not at the Department of Finance and Deregulation.
Reforms could tie up public servants
12:00AM | Verona Burgess | The Australian Financial Review
Senior public servants could find themselves spending much more time appearing before parliamentary committees if reforms to the House of Representatives that are being auctioned off so shamelessly come to pass.
Headset noise protection
19 August 2010 | Christopher Jay | The Australian Financial Review
The Department of Human Services is to install around 4,000 [c] hearing protection devices on headsets used by its call centre operators, to block hearing damage caused by sudden loud blasts of noise from lightning strikes and malicious callers.

Water commission checks low flow and no flow