Stephanie Peatling
Stephanie Peatling is a senior writer. She is a former Canberra Political Correspondent for the Sun-Herald.
Gambling interests, miners big donors to political parties
Stephanie Peatling, Bianca Hall, Daniel Hurst Mining and gambling interests were heavy contributors to political parties last financial year, at a time when the government was considering dropping poker machine reforms and fighting off a...
Pokies pay out to parties
Stephanie Peatling and Bianca Hall Mining and gambling interests contributed heavily to political parties last financial year, at a time when the government was considering dropping its poker machine reforms and fighting off an attack...
Katter loaded and gunning for seats
Daniel Hurst and Stephanie Peatling Labor had debts of $11.9 million and the Liberals were $15 million in the red on the eve of federal election season.
Gun clubs fire up for Katter's party
Stephanie Peatling Bob Katter's Australia Party has revealed donations of nearly $200,000 from gun clubs and retailers.
Cash flow to political parties drops by half
Stephanie Peatling, Bianca Hall and Daniel Hurst Donations and other payments to political parties fell by nearly half in the last financial year leaving each of the parties with substantial debts as they prepare for the upcoming campaign.
Subsidy sought for RU486
Stephanie Peatling Public funding to lower the cost of RU486 and one other so-called abortion drug will be considered at a meeting of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Commission in March.
Push for $1.4b childcare pay boost
Stephanie Peatling Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces further pressure to take the budget into deficit, with a band of MPs saying a $1.4 billion injection into childcare to improve workers' wages is vastly overdue.
Super off Abbott's hit-list, but only for first year
Stephanie Peatling Tony Abbott will promise to quarantine superannuation as a Coalition government looks for budget savings in its first term in office.
MPs call for $1.4b to lift the pay of childcarers
Stephanie Peatling The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, faces further pressure to take the budget into deficit, with a group of MPs saying a $1.
Indigenous involvement vital in plan for constitutional recognition
Stephanie Peatling Specially appointed indigenous parliamentary commissioners are needed to oversee the push to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the constitution, the government funded...
Welfare cut puts Gillard in hot seat
Stephanie Peatling The largest number of single parents affected by the federal government's decision to reduce their welfare payments live in the Prime Minister's electorate in Melbourne's west.
Struggling to see the benefit in welfare shift
Stephanie Peatling For Louise Piltz the choice was difficult but obvious.
Greens seek boost for childcare teachers
Stephanie Peatling Early childhood teachers who work in childcare centres rather than schools would have the cost of their university studies reimbursed under a Greens proposal being considered by the federal...
New tune shows Coalition ready to start ringing in the changes
Stephanie Peatling THE ringtone of Tony Abbott's senior press secretary, Andrew Hirst, changed earlier this year from a grab of the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, declaring there would be no carbon tax to the...
ALP shifts office to avoid NSW taint - MPs
Stephanie Peatling and Jacqueline Maley Labor will move its election campaign headquarters from Sydney to Melbourne for the 2013 federal poll, in a bid, MPs say, to distance itself from the soiled political brand of the New South Wales...
ALP shifts office to avoid NSW taint - MPs
Stephanie Peatling, Jacqueline Maley LABOR will move its election campaign headquarters from Sydney to Melbourne for the federal poll next year, in an attempt, MPs say, to distance itself from the soiled political brand of the NSW party...
All a twitter about Abbott and that judgment
Stephanie Peatling At the rate of 140 characters a tweet it is going to take a while but someone has taken it upon themselves to put on twitter the entire Federal Court judgment dismissing a sexual harassment claim by...
Welfare fraud becomes harder
Stephanie Peatling Sophisticated data-mining techniques combined with old-fashioned private detectives and dobbing in wrongdoers are resulting in fewer people being prosecuted for welfare fraud and allowing the federal...
At home with Liz Broderick
Stephanie Peatling Much progress has been made, but the Sex Discrimination Commissioner says there is still work to be done.
Brough remains candidate despite damning judgment
Stephanie Peatling Former Howard government minister Mal Brough will remain a Coalition candidate at next year’s federal election despite a damning Federal Court judgment that found he was involved in actions to...
