$550m in funding to care for more older people at home
Almost a thousand high-level aged-care packages will be allocated in South Australia within weeks after the Federal Government committed more than half a billion dollars to home-care funding.
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Shorten vows to crack down on super rorts
As protesters struck during Labor’s national conference and invaded the stage, Labor Leader Bill Shorten vowed to claw back $5.9 billion of lost superannuation and stop almost one in three South Australians from being underpaid. He also unveiled plans for an overhaul of environmental law.
Woman arrested as protesters crash Labor conference
Bill Shorten’s big moment on stage at the party’s National Conference in Adelaide was overshadowed when a group of activists, protesting the proposed Adani coal mine in Queensland, stormed the stage. VIDEO + CONFERENCE UPDATES.
Boothby’s big battle for drilling in the Bight
More than half of the voters in South Australia’s most marginal electorate do not want drilling in the Great Australian Bight and more than eight in ten support the region being World Heritage Listed.
We must be humble — Wong
Labor’s most senior figure in South Australia says the party, raging hot favourite heading into next year’s election, must not get ahead of itself.
Can we fit an entire Darwin in our city?
Adelaide will have to squeeze the equivalent of a city bigger than Darwin within its current footprint by 2045, Infrastructure Australia says.
Turnbull backs SA in power battle
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has praised the State Government’s $100 million home battery scheme, while branding a “significant percentage” of Coalition MPs as climate-change deniers willing to blow up government.
Compo recommended for those near RAAF base
Businesses and property owners affected by the contamination of potentially deadly toxins detected on Australian Defence Force land including the Edinburgh RAAF base should receive compensation, a government committee recommends.
Big three power retailers to take $2.8bn — but ‘big stick’ on its way
More than $2.8 billion is expected to be funnelled into the coffers of the three biggest energy retailers in the next financial year, analysis reveals.
Loved-up fraudsters lying for extra cash
More than 2000 South Australians have rorted the welfare system by pretending to be single, in order to claim higher payments.
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