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Jazmine Claveria with children Hugo, 2, and Penelope, eight months.

Jazmin and her husband work in the same industry, but she has less super

Women retire with about one-third less superannuation than men, but former health minister Nicola Roxon wants the government to pay super on parental leave.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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An artist’s impression of a cigarette branded with a ‘smoking kills’ warning, as proposed by the Health Minister Mark Butler.

Individual cigarettes could carry ‘smoking kills’ warnings: health minister

Health Minister Mark Butler says the graphic warnings on Australia’s cigarette packs have lost their impact after 10 years.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Australia was the first country to introduce plain packaging rules.

A decade on from plain packaging, what is the result?

There’s a whole generation of young Australians who only know cigarettes with plain packaging. It took a fight to achieve, but the results are in the numbers.

  • Rachel Clun
The Berejiklian government and the crossbench are at a stand-off over the powers of the Upper House.

Blunt advice for unlikely upper house pair

Lost among the back-and-forth over Treasurer Dominic Perrottet’s third budget on Tuesday was the escalation of a long-running debate over a promised disability commissioner.

  • Kylar Loussikian and Samantha Hutchinson
Plain packaged cigarettes.

Australia comes to UK's rescue over plain packaging laws after Brexit

Britain is leaving the EU and calling on its old friends from Down Under to keep up the fight against Big Tobacco.

  • Latika Bourke

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