Mortgage stress in NSW and Victoria has increased by more than 80 per cent in the past year, as the Albanese government pressures the Senate to back legislation that will increase housing supply.
Economists have backed Labor’s push to ask wealthier Australians to pay more for aged care but panned suggestions the savings would be enough to repair the budget, amid concerns $1.5m fines will be insufficient to deter misconduct resulting in injury or death.
The Coalition is likely to oppose Labor’s second attempt to legislate a crackdown on online misinformation and disinformation, amid criticism from legal experts that expanding the bill to include political content will undermine free speech.
The Communications Minister will release revised laws to combat online misinformation, after the government’s first attempt was slammed for hampering free speech.
King Charles III will meet melanoma experts Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer, who is undergoing experimental treatment for his own brain cancer, on his first royal visit to Australia as monarch.
Anthony Albanese has signalled his preference for increasing the minimum age when teenagers can access social media platforms to 16, amid a federal government push to legislate an age-based ban by the end of the year.
A landmark Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has proposed a new way to transition former defence personnel into civilian life and sounded the alarm on the high rates of military sexual violence.
Defence personnel convicted of sexual offences will be automatically discharged under sweeping recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide.
Julie-Ann Finney, one of the leading figures who pushed for a royal commission into veteran suicides, has vowed to haunt the government at the next election if it fails to take swift action.
The Albanese government’s crackdown on international student numbers has already cost the economy $4.3bn and will lead to jobs losses, the sector has warned, as new figures debunk the theory that foreign students have caused the housing crisis.
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