Joe Hockey.

Inside Joe Hockey’s power-heavy garden party

The former federal treasurer can still draw a crowd of political and media elites

  • Kishor Napier-Raman andMadeleine Heffernan

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Greater Western Water.

Troubled water company’s $150m bailout over botched billing system

Greater Western Water has been propped up with a multimillion-dollar cash injection,has lost its chairman and is under investigation over customer billing.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
Mining magnate Clive Palmer with Victorian senator Ralph Babet.

Why Clive Palmer’s $110 million senator is skipping the budget

A virtual Tucker Carlson is more appealing for Ralph Babet than Jim Chalmers’ showpiece in Canberra next Tuesday.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman,Stephen Brook andMadeleine Heffernan
Gina Edwards and Oscar the cavoodle after she won her defamation case against Nine.

Top barrister Arthur Moses drafted into celebrity cavoodle dogfight

The legal profession’s equivalent of an 800-pound gorilla has wandered into a case that all began with a very small dog.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman andMadeleine Heffernan
Water woes for Greater Western Water customers.

‘Complete shambles’:Data breaches and incorrect bills in Greater Western Water bungle

The company’s long-running billing bungles have led to potential data breaches and delayed property settlements.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
Three large utes pack into spaces in a city carpark on Thursday.

Mega-car in a mini space:How SUVs are reshaping Australian car parks

A proposal to lengthen parking bays to accommodate enormous vehicles has attracted more than 1200 submissions.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
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CCTV footage of three people trying to remove the head from a statue of Captain Cook in Fitzroy Gardens.

Captain Cook statue and cottage in Fitzroy Gardens vandalised again

Police say the offenders spray-painted the cottage with anti-Cook messages and tried to cut off the statue’s head.

  • Madeleine Heffernan andAlexander Darling
Ken McCroary,a doctor in Campbelltown. said the election spend from both parties was not enough for him to change his billing practices.

Free GP visits for all? Even with an $8.5b top-up,it depends on where you live

Doctors are warning Australians to temper their expectations as they fear patients will be disappointed when most city clinics keep charging gap fees.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos,Daniel Lo Surdo andMadeleine Heffernan
U-GO self-service petrol station in Mentone,in bayside Melbourne.

Service with a smile or smile for the camera:Fuelling change at the local servo

The last vestiges of old-fashioned service and friendly faces on the road are giving way to a new crop of DIY petrol stations without any faces at all.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
Sam Vale of the Windsor Community Children’s Centre and kids Billie,Thea,and Lance.

Melbourne kinder in jeopardy after state rejects plea to buy site

The 47-year-old Windsor Community Children’s Centre faces eviction after the state government refused to buy the land earmarked for sale by Swinburne University.

  • Nicole Precel andMadeleine Heffernan