Labor efforts on home care ‘not good enough’
Labor has ‘squandered’ the progress made on home care under the former Coalition government, with wait times for packages blowing out to up to 15 months.
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King weighs in on ‘unmistakeable’ climate change
The King has intervened in Australia’s climate change debate, saying the nation was ‘particularly vulnerable’ from rising temperatures and backing the Albanese government’s rollout of renewables.
Pezzullo: ‘I don’t need any honours’
Responding to the announcement that he had been officially stripped of his Order of Australia, former Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo said the matter paled in comparison to the serious issues currently facing the world.
Labor MPs renew negative gearing push after PM’s $4.3m house splash
Labor MPs want negative gearing reform to be put back on the table in the wake of revelations Anthony Albanese purchased a $4.3m home, threatening a pre-election schism between the PM and Jim Chalmers over housing tax policies.
Buying into trouble: Albanese’s political judgment on a cliff edge
Anthony Albanese has been forced to deny he is contemplating life after politics just months before an election campaign, after paying $4.3m for a clifftop house on the NSW central coast where he will live with future wife Jodie Haydon.
Alarm over age reform timeline
Nearly 70 per cent of aged care providers are concerned Labor’s $5.6bn reforms to the sector are being rushed, damning new research reveals.
Schools ‘targets of Labor hostility’
The Coalition has accused Labor of demonstrating ‘hostility towards non-government schools’ alongside the Greens’ ‘vilification’ of the sector that has sparked concerns from peak bodies.
Class war: ‘We’ll teach the Greens’, vow private schools
Independent schools are preparing to launch a nationwide campaign in Greens and marginal electorates calling out the ‘relentless and baseless vilification’ of private schools.
Veto puts forum’s worth ‘in doubt’
China and Russia vetoed a joint East Asia Summit statement last week over the South China Sea, prompting a former Defence Department official to warn some multilateral forums were ‘on the cusp’ of becoming obsolete.
What’s the deal? China ‘will want trade-off on lobsters’
Canberra and Beijing are likely to engage in a ‘quid pro quo dance’ in coming weeks following Beijing’s announcement that it will lift its ban on Australian lobsters, experts say.
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