The taxpayer-funded scheme even allows bureaucrats to bring their parents, partners and children to confidential counselling sessions. The government has defended the “employee assistance programs” — ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Victoria. Followed categories will be added to My News. As the state officially reaches its 90 per cent double dose milestone, the Victorian government said it was ...

Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy claims Victoria’s cost-cutting measures including axing thousands of public servants are due to some “hard decisions”. The Labor state government will be axing the ...

A woman has revealed how she walks down the "death stairs" in her 18th-century house, which were originally used by servants. Kim and her husband, Rod, bought Bloomfield Farm in Virginia, a few years ...

The history of legal restrictions imposed upon Victorian departmental public servants dates from the introduction of responsible government in 1856. This article examines the evolution of Victorian ...

Victorian Treasurer Jaclyn Symes has conceded what any weekday stroll through Melbourne’s CBD will tell you — the state’s bureaucrats are ignoring orders to return to the office three days a week. As ...

Are Victoria’s public servants about to get a dose of John Setka-style unionism? The Source has learned that former CFMEU officials, who were made redundant under administrator Mark Irving, have ...

NORWALK -- The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will open its servants' quarters to public viewing for the first time this October. The new exhibit, called "The Stairs Below: The Mansion's Domestic ...

There were a number of unusual phrases during the era Downton was set, which we reveal for Sun readers IT’S the beloved period drama centred around the lives of Victorian-era servants and the ...