Aged care backflip to cost taxpayers $900m
The Aged Care Act was due to commence on July 1 after passing parliament with the Coalition’s support last year, but will now be pushed back to November.
The Aged Care Act was due to commence on July 1 after passing parliament with the Coalition’s support last year, but will now be pushed back to November.
Ted O’Brien says ‘there is not one component of their tax plan that we like’ after the Treasurer said outbursts from backbenchers cast doubt on whether the Coalition is serious in its offer to negotiate on Labor’s super tax.
As the NDIS clocked over 700,000 participants for the first time in the last quarter, Anne Ruston said the government had ‘a lot to come clean with Australians about’ when it came to its reforms.
Cox’s previous comments about Israel and Gaza could also present headaches for the Albanese government that she is now part of.
Anthony Albanese has left the door open to increasing defence spending above the current goal of 2.3 per cent of GDP by 2033, declaring ‘our goal is to give Australia the capability that it needs’.
Anthony Albanese says outspoken North West Shelf critic Dorinda Cox must support Labor’s policies. The run of inflation-beating pay hikes are not sustainable without a pickup in productivity growth, the Ai Group warns.
Anthony Albanese has been warned by a former army chief that the government risks ‘abrogating its responsibility’ to the public and those in uniform by failing to increase military funding.
Dorinda Cox’s shock defection from the Greens to Labor has blindsided her former colleagues and angered ex-staffers who had complained of bullying during their time in her office.
The government has quietly changed controversial liquidity rules for aged-care providers after outcry over reforms that peak bodies warned would risk the financial viability of organisations that would have to put aside millions of dollars in cash reserves.
Larissa Waters questions how the senator’s values will align with Labor, while revealing she had been given just one hour’s notice of the move.
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