Three million Aussies risk sleeping rough
The number of Australians at risk of homelessness has surged by more than 60 per cent in the last eight years to three million, a Homelessness NSW and Impact Economics has revealed.
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Labor to remove limits on home care gardening, cleaning
Labor has scrapped its proposed caps on gardening and cleaning for elderly Australians with home care packages as part of its efforts to lock in the Coalition’s support for its $5.2bn bill.
Senate censures Lidia Thorpe over antics at King Charles’ speech
Controversial independent senator Lidia Thorpe says the move by the major parties gives her ‘a renewed opportunity’ to call out injustice and call for a Treaty.
EDO ‘doubling down’ on McPhillamys gold mine win
The Environmental Defenders Office has created a ‘specialist team’ to protect Indigenous heritage on sites of potential resources projects, raising industry concerns.
Aged-care bill faces changes
Labor faces a raft of changes to its $5.6bn aged-care bill in the final sitting fortnight of the year, with the Coalition demanding ‘clear timelines’ for the reforms and a commitment to not cut aged-care places.
UN vote shift ‘for two-state solution’
Labor’s support for a UN resolution recognising the ‘permanent state’ of Palestine will ‘build momentum’ to a long-term solution in the region, according to frontbencher Jason Clare.
Greens offer Labor ‘compromise’ on housing
The Greens are backing down from their fight with Labor over long-stalled pieces of housing legislation, following devastating losses in popularity for the minor party at the national and state level.
Donations cap to foil billionaire influence
Labor is closing in on a deal for a suite of electoral reforms that would set a cap on how much an individual such as Clive Palmer could donate to political parties to $600,000 a year.
‘Not our fault’: Hired help goes under the Cbus
Cbus chief Kristian Fok has blamed a delay in death and disability payments on the Japanese-owned company the industry superannuation fund has outsourced to administer claims.
Cbus members risk being forced to contribute to fund’s fines
Thousands of members face the prospect of their life savings being used to pay millions of dollars in penalties for the alleged mishandling of money owed to grieving families and disabled people, as Labor stood by the fund’s chairman Wayne Swan.
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