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An Extra Billion Dollars To Build Public & Community Homes 12/09/2023

An extra billion dollars to build public and community homes has won Labor desperately needed support for its signature housing fund, but the end of a bitter nine-month political stoush will bring little relief to renters at the coalface of Australia’s housing crisis.

Sydney’s bus network is facing fresh scrutiny amid an alarming number of services being cancelled and bus drivers calling in sick, with an average of 134 trips being abandoned on one network each day.

Damning videos show top doctors alerted the state government in the lead-up to the 2022 election that serious emergency department failings were driving a rise in child deaths in hospitals.

Nearly 40  per cent of investors surveyed by a peak industry body have sold their Queensland rental properties in the past year – more than anywhere else in the country.

More than 4500 illegal vapes have been seized and 12 Adelaide businesses fined during a blitz  on unlawful  nicotine sales.

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