Federal - State Issues

WA is desperate to retain the GST deal it struck with Scott Morrison as the Productivity Commission looks to rein in cost blowouts, and says exempting 25 per cent of mining revenues could help.

Funding for water infrastructure, urban renewal projects and first-home buyer schemes has been announced in a partnership between the Commonwealth and the state government.

After fighting for years for a childcare solution for her community, Teisha Archer says the news it will be happening is "wonderful" — but will come too late to help her and others in her situation.

The Commonwealth will try to force a deal on hospital funding at a National Cabinet meeting this week, after months of stalled negotiations with angry state leaders, who say the federal government is not contributing its fair share.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called on David Crisafulli to "justify" his refusal to join the national gun buyback scheme.

Whether or not Anthony Albanese believes a federal royal commission is necessary, or even the best use of resources, is now politically irrelevant.

Hundreds of people have accessed South Australia's Donor Conception Register in its first year, lifting decades of secrecy surrounding anonymous donations — an outcome that has prompted calls from a leading advocate for similar moves at national level.

In every Australian state and the NT, churches cannot be held vicariously liable for historical child sexual abuse perpetrated by their priests. Grace Tame is leading the charge for change.

Labor has two options when it comes to straddling a budget in the red and accusations it has become a green Grinch on health funding.

The prime minister wrote to states and territories this week, upping the Commonwealth's offer for public hospital funding.

State and territory leaders hold an emergency meeting over public hospital funding, declaring they cannot sacrifice hospital care to bolster the Commonwealth's finances.

The co-vice chancellors of the new Adelaide University says the mammoth task of merging two universities has its own complexities.

Workers at disability employment provider Bedford reveal their joy at learning their jobs are secure with the announcement of a preferred buyer, following months of uncertainty. 

Health ministers are furious with a letter from the prime minister demanding they rein in spending if they want a public hospital funding deal honoured. 

The federal health minister says the jobs of "hundreds and hundreds of South Australians who live with a disability" have been secured, as The Disability Trust is named as the preferred buyer to take over Bedford's supported employment and learning and experience programs.

More than 90 Tasmanians who have been medically cleared to leave hospital are not able to because they are waiting for an aged care place or NDIS support. Premier Jeremy Rockliff says it's "not good enough" and is calling on the federal government to increase hospital funding.

Almost a decade after one was recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. 

From late next month, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia will begin to cease operations and transform to become Adelaide University. But as the clock ticks, some students and staff are feeling the pressure.

The state government defends spending $1 million on an advertising campaign about Western Australia's GST deal, as the fight to protect the state's carve-up of the distribution ramps up.

Western Australia again secures the top gong as Australia's best performing economy according to a new report by the Commonwealth Bank, despite the state recording some of the country's weakest economic growth.