Crackdown urged over insurers’ ‘policy tricks’ on fire cover
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, right? Well not in the view of some of Australia’s main insurers, with the government urged to tighten the definition of the word.
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Royal commission expert’s call for fire tax on homes
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Bushfire royal commission to focus on burns, climate change
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Barrier Reef Foundation chief missed two-thirds of meetings
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Chinese envoy in Sydney calls for lift of virus travel ban
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Bold plan to merge child daycare and aged care centres
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