Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia’s passport office mishandled hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of contracts, according to a damning audit.

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Auditors have criticised the Australian Passport Office over procurement contracts, saying transparency and ethics standards were not upheld. Eighteen current and former Department of Foreign ...

Australia's Passport Office is under scrutiny after a damning audit revealed more than a dozen officials and contractors are being investigated for possible misconduct. What early voting has told ...

So when the immigration officer at Dubai starts slowly leafing through my brand-new passport, I’m not alarmed. But then he keeps looking. And looks some more. Uluru, depicted on the Australian ...

Labor has been accused of ‘gross profiteering’ through pushing up passport fees, with the federal government on track to rake in almost $1 billion annually from Australian travellers.

The first official Australian stamp was issued on January 2, 1913, and celebrates its 111th anniversary this year. The red one-penny stamp bearing a kangaroo and a map of Australia overtook the ...

The Victorian government has announced significant stamp duty reductions for off-the-plan homes, aiming to address the state’s urgent need for more housing supply, PropTrack reported. Previously ...

CANBERRA, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Personal data, including passport and visa information, has been compromised in a cyber attack on a data firm contracted by Australia's Department of Home Affairs. News ...

This is now the third time Australia has attempted to replace the paper-based incoming passenger card. The Government’s ‘seamless traveller’ initiative of 2016, which was behind the rollout of ...

Federal Housing Minister Clare O’Neil this week supported the Business Council of Australia’s call for stamp duty to be abolished and replaced with an annual land tax. Federal housing minister ...