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Firms tell of possible bribes

Several large Australian public companies provide federal police with information implicating themselves in possible foreign bribery offences.

Travel giant gets sued over bullying allegations

Senior Flight Centre managers failed to act on allegations of serious bullying: legal claim.

OPI staff misconduct claims

The Victorian police watchdog's most secretive unit operated for several years with ''little governance'' and ''limited accountability'' and took far too long to respond to internal misconduct, according to leaked documents.

Criminally insane face pay-to-stay care charge

Patients at Victoria's largest hospital for the criminally insane will have a third of their pension deducted as part of a pay-to-stay policy designed to give them ''real life budgeting experience''.

Linton Besser

Employment agency rorts investigated

THE federal government has started an investigation into 14 employment agencies suspected of rorting its multibillion-dollar job assistance scheme, as evidence mounts of the long-running program being routinely abused.

Melissa Fyfe

State fails to meet fire goal

Dozens of Victorian suburbs and towns remain overexposed to extreme bushfire risk this season because the Baillieu government failed to meet its targets to reduce fuel loads around the state's most vulnerable communities.

Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker

State to close 24-hour mental health helpline

The state government is shutting down Victoria's only 24-hour mental health helpline.

Melissa Fyfe

Baillieu fights to conceal policies advice

Baillieu government is spending thousands of taxpayer dollars in a fight to keep secret the public service's advice on its election policies.

Philip Dorling

More power for ATO, police to catch offshore tax cheats

THE Australian Taxation Office and federal law enforcement agencies want to intensify their campaign against offshore tax evasion, with increased penalties and greater powers for investigators expected to be considered by the federal government this year.

Stuart Washington, Alexandra Smith

Supermarket food labels mislead shoppers

COLES and Woolworths are selling imported food under their private labels without disclosing where it comes from, while still being able to boast it is "Made in Australia".