As Christmas approached in 2022, Brett Redman must have struggled to feel particularly merry. He had barely been in the boss of New South Wales transmission company Transgrid for a year and problems were mounting. Chief among them was the company’s flagship Project EnergyConnect, a 900-kilometre high-voltage powerline linking Wagga Wagga to Robertstown in South…

Victorian teachers have gone against their union’s advice and voted down a pay rise of up to 32 per cent. After a hard-fought campaign that included the first 24-hour Victorian teacher strike in 13 years, the Australian Education Union (AEU) last month announced it had reached an in-principal agreement with the state government that would…

Boxing Australia is in crisis after its chief executive Dinah Glykidis resigned on Friday, weeks ahead of the Commonwealth Games. Her resignation follows that of national Integrity manager Kelly Loakes. High-performance manager (HPM) Jonathan Hall is on leave. Mr Hall’s out-of-office message directs all HPM enquiries to Jamie Pittman, the former Australian national head coach,…

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